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Philadelphia Inquirer — There’s Nothing More Progressive than Stopping City Kids from Getting Shot

Progressive-minded criminologists like Roman or Butts are boosters of community antiviolence intervention programs such as the Cure Violence model, in which more mature people from the neighborhood work as “violence interrupters” and seek to mediate disputes or defuse tensions before they get out of hand. Continue reading Philadelphia Inquirer — There’s Nothing More Progressive than Stopping City Kids from Getting Shot

JeffreyButts
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Estimating Causal Relationships Among Youth Justice Policies and Rates of Juvenile Confinement

Researchers used state-level data on youth justice policies and practices to explore the association between state policy environments and recent changes in the use of residential placements for adjudicated youth (i.e., confinement). The study assigned a score to each of the 50 states based on the extent to which their youth justice policy environments could be considered “progressive” as opposed to punitive or regressive. Continue reading Estimating Causal Relationships Among Youth Justice Policies and Rates of Juvenile Confinement

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