Presents information on state statutes and/or court rules that permit or require juvenile delinquency hearings to be open to the general public. 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 issue of Pennsylvania Progress will describe…
This Snapshot, updated for 2009, summarizes state provisions allowing or requiring a jury trial in termination of parental rights cases. Download Publication
These are the remarks of Melissa Sickmund, the Chief of Systems Research for the National Center for Juvenile Justice, to the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission. The Commission was convened in 2009 to investigate ‘a highly publicized…
This document offers detailed, state-by-state provisions of juvenile transfer laws, and is current as of the end of 2009 state legislative sessions. Aspects of transfer law described include: lower and upper ages; terms of discretionary…
‘This technical assistance bulletin was developed by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to show the effectiveness of sober support in the recovery process. Sober support is defined as a personal connection…
‘This technical assistance bulletin from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges discusses 16 strategies for ensuring continued use of evidence-based practices in juvenile drug courts. The 16 strategies discussed in this bulletin…
Describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2007 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2007 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Courts with juvenile jurisdiction may handle a variety of matters, including…
This fact sheet is based on 1-day counts of the juvenile placement population from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement and the Juvenile Residential Facility Census. The data show that the number of juvenile…
Presents statistics on delinquency cases handled in U.S. juvenile courts between 1985 and 2007. From 1985 through 1997, the number of delinquency cases handled climbed steadily (61 percent), and from 1997 through 2007, the delinquency…
Presents statistics on person offenses (assault, robbery, rape, and homicide) handled by juvenile courts in 2007, and compared to 1985. Download Publication
Presents statistics on delinquency cases resulting in probation in 2007. This Fact Sheet is based on the report Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007. Download Publication