Findings are presented on juvenile arrests as reported by local law enforcement officials to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2001. Download Publication
This report outlines the process of funding for juvenile justice services in the State of Pennsylvania focusing on the reimbursement system and funding innovations made possible under Legislative Act 148. Pennsylvania legislative Act No. 148…
This article briefly reviews state laws on the marriage rights of minors. Download Publication
This opinion article discusses the rise of data-driven decision making and the need to identify a sound method for risk classification among juvenile offenders. Download Publication
This brief report offers a 2001 update on state variation in handling judicial waiver to criminal court, the oldest and most common statutory procedure whereby a juvenile court may or must waive its jurisdiction over…
This brief report highlights state variations in the use of the interested adult test (sometimes called the concerned adult test, the friendly adult test or the per se rule) to decide whether or not a…
This document reports on EPIC-SCAN (Educating Physicians in Their Communities – Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect), a program that trains Pennsylvania’s primary care providers to recognize signs of maltreatment in their patients and to respond…
This report discusses a Pennsylvania program to address the needs of traumatized girls in the juvenile justice system. Funded by the state’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency and developed by volunteers, the PTSD Project aims…
This brief report, updated for 2001, highlights state variations in the use of the direct file, prosecutor discretion and prosecutorial waiver, procedures used to remove juvenile offenders from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to…
This column from ‘Hunter of Delinquency’ discusses a study of family court jurisdiction and the overlap of family members involved in related cases in criminal court, prepared by the National Center for Juvenile Justice and…
‘Once an Adult/Always an Adult’ provisions say that if a juvenile’s delinquency proceeding originated in or was transferred to criminal court then he or she is forever excluded from juvenile court jurisdiction. This brief report…
This brief report highlights state differences in laws governing the minimum age for capital punishment, updated as of 2002. ( In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned laws that imposed capital punishment for offenses committed…