This brief report, updated for 2008, summarizes current state provisions governing a juvenile’s right to counsel and right to waive. All jurisdictions grant the right to counsel; whether a juvenile may waive that right generally…
This Snapshot, updated for 2008, summarizes state provisions allowing or requiring a jury trial in termination of parental rights cases. Download Publication
This Bulletin includes an exploratory analysis of almost 11,000 cases closed by the Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Juvenile Court between 2000 and 2006 and presents baseline performance measures for that period. The outcome data is used…
This brief report highlights state variations in laws dealing with habitual runaways. Download Publication
Pennsylvania is engaged in an ambitious effort to build a comprehensive model system for identifying, appropriately diverting, and effectively serving and treating court-involved youth with behavioral health disorders. This publication describes all of these identified…
‘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, updated for 2007, highlights state variations in public access to abuse/neglect/dependency hearings. Download Publication
This Bulletin uses performance data collected from 10,718 juvenile probation cases closed between 2000 and 2006 by the Allegheny County Juvenile Probation Department located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to demonstrate the utility of juvenile justice outcome…
This white paper is based on the belief that Pennsylvania citizens have a right to be and feel safe from crime. It recognizes that, for the most part, young people who commit crimes are not…
This brochure outlines Pennsylvania’s statutory juvenile justice system goals – community protection, offender accountability, and competency development. It also discusses the foundational White Papers, commissioned by the state, which explain each goal, present relevant research,…
This directory of programs is designed to assist juvenile courts, probation departments and service providers in identifying research-based curricula, community resources and Blueprints programs that can be implemented or tapped to provide competency development skill-training…
This report was assembled by NCJJ to report the progress of Models for Change Core States reform about 2 years into the demonstration site work in the first Models for Change core state, Pennsylvania. The…