This brief report highlights state variations in the use of the Supreme Court’s per se age test for determining whether or not a juvenile under a certain age has validly waived his or her Miranda rights.
Judges and court professionals involved in child welfare court improvement efforts will benefit from the Judicial, Court, and Attorney Measures of Performance (JCAMP), a new tool for measuring court practices and performance in child welfare…
The National Center for Juvenile Justice has released a catalog of dependency case management reports. The catalog assembles examples NCJJ has developed in juvenile courts over the past thirty years that can be used to…
In 2021, juvenile courts in the United States handled 437,300 delinquency cases that involved youth charged with criminal law violations, 13% less than the number of cases handled in 2020. From 2005 through 2021, the…