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Congressional Quarterly Researcher — Youth Violence – Are “Get Tough” Policies the Best Approach?

Jeffrey Butts, a criminologist who this spring will become executive director of the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, points out that while aggregate youth crime has not been going up nationally, it can seem that way. Crime, he says, is “very local,” meaning crime rates may vary among neighborhoods a few blocks from each other. Continue reading Congressional Quarterly Researcher — Youth Violence – Are “Get Tough” Policies the Best Approach?

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Monographs & Reports

Past, Present, and Future of Juvenile Justice: Assessing the Policy Options (APO)

This report presents the results of research that examined changing trends in juvenile justice legislation and surveyed juvenile justice professionals across the nation to measure their impressions of recent juvenile justice policy reforms. Researchers learned there is considerable consensus among diverse practitioner groups, with survey respondents viewing rehabilitative programs as more effective than punitive ones – a perspective consistent with recent legislative trends. Together, these data suggest the policy pendulum is swinging toward more progressive measures after years of “get tough” reforms. Continue reading Past, Present, and Future of Juvenile Justice: Assessing the Policy Options (APO)

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Audio, Broadcast

WAMU – Kojo Nnamdi Show

Host: When we see the headline stories in the newspapers about young people usually young teenagers committing adult-like crimes, it often tends to obscure the fact that most of the young teenagers who commit crimes are, in fact, committing low-level crimes and that they are often first offenders, so we don’t seem to spend a great deal of time discussing exactly how they should be treated… Continue reading WAMU – Kojo Nnamdi Show

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