This session provided an overview of the research on adolescent brain development and the implications of developmental factors on efforts to engage youth and young adults in reentry. Continue reading Adolescent Brain Development and Research Evidence for Juvenile Justice
Portland State University School of Social Work Summer Symposium on Youth Mentoring Presentation to researchers and practitioners at the summer symposium at Portland State University, telling the audience that youth mentoring deserves to be a key component of the juvenile justice system. Continue reading Mentoring in Juvenile Justice
Researchers investigated the operations of a pre-court diversion program that provides services and supports to “station adjusted” (i.e., informally handled) youthful offenders after they have come into contact with the Chicago Police Department but before they have been formally arrested and referred to the Cook County Juvenile Probation Department. The purpose of the study was to determine the suitability of the program for evaluation and to work with staff to enact any procedural modifications that may be needed to facilitate future evaluation activities. Continue reading Process Evaluation of the Chicago Juvenile Intervention and Support Center
A research team led by sociologist Jeffrey Butts, executive director of the research and evaluation center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, will monitor the work in Denver and in four other communities that recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Justice. Butts said the results could help craft strategies in hard-hit cities like Detroit, where crime stubbornly refuses to ease. “The whole idea is to find a way to tackle what we call a hardened base of crime,” he said.
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