This report provides an update of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants (JAIBG) Program in Pennsylvania. The JAIBG Program is a broad-scale effort, now in its third year, to promote juvenile accountability nationwide through incentive…
This report 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
This report highlights state variations in purpose clauses for their Megan’s Law statutes, which require convicted criminal sex offenders to register with the police, and permits the community to be notified of necessary and relevant…
The Pennsylvania Electronic Juvenile Justice Databook contains a wealth of county-level information on Pennsylvania youth. This issue of Pennsylvania Progress describes this powerful data dissemination tool, its origin and development, and its potential for local…
This report briefly summarizes current state provisions governing the application of Megan’s Law to juveniles and the age at which states require or permit juveniles to be registered as sex offenders. Download Publication
All states have laws making it discretionary or mandatory for courts to require a parent or guardian to pay at least part of the support costs for a juvenile who is adjudicated delinquent and placed…
This brief report, updated for 2000, highlights state differences in the extension of juvenile court jurisdiction beyond the statutory maximum age. Download Publication
This report offers information on helping traumatized girls in Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system. According to the introduction, ‘Researchers and practitioners alike are beginning to suspect that one vital key to understanding and reaching female delinquents…
This brief report highlights state variations in the lower and upper ages of juvenile court delinquency jurisdiction and the age of criminal responsibility. Download Publication
This publication offers articles on the following topics: a family code for Ohio; chapters of the Ohio Revised Code that address legal proceedings involving the family; and Ohio’s preparations for federal child and family service…
This brief report reviews the status of state emancipation laws and procedures, as of 2001. Download Publication
This brief report highlights variations in state-mandated domestic violence training for judges. Download Publication