This bulletin reviews the agreement among states on child welfare placement of children known as the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC); presents a former judge’s opinions on the ICPC process; offers the…
This brief report highlights circumstances in which sealed juvenile court records may be unsealed or inspected. Download Publication
This article briefly reviews the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which establishes a national sex offender registry. Download Publication
This article briefly reviews Florida’s new statutory provisions creating an Office of Child Abuse Prevention. Download Publication
The author discusses the impact of Pennsylvania’s Act 33 on the state’s juvenile justice system, on the law’s tenth anniversary. Act 33 amended the state Juvenile Act’s ‘purpose clause’. The amendment requires that legal interpretation…
This Special Project Bulletin introduces users to the history, content, and design of the State Juvenile Justice Profiles and web site. The State Juvenile Justice Profiles features rich, descriptive information and analysis regarding each state’s…
This report briefly summarizes current state provisions governing the age at which states require or permit juveniles to be registered as sex offenders. Download Publication
This report, updated for 2006, highlights state variations in age limits or other provisions for ending the required Megan’s Law registration of an adjudicated juvenile sex offender. Download Publication
Currently, all states have enacted a version of “Megan’s Law,” which requires convicted criminal sex offenders to register with the police, and permits community notification of the offender. However, not all states apply their registration…
The author discusses the inadequacy of the IJA-ABA Joint Commission on Juvenile Justice’s 1976 Standards, the adultification of juvenile offenders, and suggests that an adversarial process in juvenile justice is fundamentally unfair. Download Publication
This brief report, updated for 2006, highlights variations in state provisions governing required notice to school if a student is involved with law enforcement or juvenile court for committing a delinquent act. Download Publication
This Bulletin offers a number of examples of promising practices and programs that can help courts expedite case processing of non-detained delinquency cases, by far the largest group of cases referred to juvenile courts, and…