This brief report, updated as of 2005, summarizes current state provisions governing the sealing, expungement, or destruction of juvenile court records, and access to such records. Most states have some provision for allowing certain parties…
‘The current study is one of the first to examine juveniles’ knowledge and perceptions of transfer laws and criminal sanctions. We interviewed 37 juveniles who had been transferred to criminal court in Georgia, obtaining quantitative…
This article, published in the February 2005 issue of Corrections Today, reviews updated data on the frequency of suicide in facilities housing juveniles under juvenile court authority. Download Publication
As part of a national court improvement project (CIP), the Philadelphia Family Court is responsible for a statewide assessment of Pennsylvania court processing of dependency matters. The National Center for Juvenile Justice was selected to…
This is a guide for planning, implementing, and operating a juvenile reentry court, whose purpose is to manage the reintegration of high-risk juvenile offenders into the community after their release from secure confinement or other…
This evaluation looked at case outcomes for child abuse and neglect cases that were randomly assigned to mediation and a comparison group of cases that were handled through the traditional hearing process and did not…
One of the fundamental purposes of Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system is to develop ‘competencies’ in delinquent youth. This report articulates basic principles and identifies research-support practices, outcomes and measures for competency development that conform to…
This booklet is a tutorial or training guide to CMIS Pittsburgh, a report generator for dependency cases. The system is fed nightly by the Allegheny County Juvenile Court’s Scheduling System (IRMA) and the Children, Youth…
For over 30 years NCJJ has gathered and cataloged documents that address the unified family court concept. This bibliography provides descriptions of a wide range of documents that address family court history and theory as…
Presents information to help juvenile courts develop practical risk-screening instruments for use in classifying youth as an aid in program assignment. The Report compares the validity of several statistical methods for classifying risk and offers…
Published annually since 1926, Juvenile Court Statistics presents national estimates and detailed descriptions of the delinquency and status offense cases processed by juvenile courts. The text, figures, and tables describe the demographic characteristics of the…
Findings are presented on juvenile arrests as reported by local law enforcement officials to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2003. Download Publication