Juvenile Justice
You are in the Juvenile Justice section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation.
See also Our Work: Juvenile Justice, an overview of Casey's investment in this issue.
Learn about the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.
Featured Publications
Fact Sheet: A Road Map for Juvenile Justice
2008
In the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book, the Annie E. Casey Foundation essay focuses on juvenile justice reform. This fact sheet presents six key challenges and points toward solutions that are proved reforms to improve the outcomes of the juvenile justice system for youth, families, taxpayers, and communities.
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15. Pathways to Juvenile Justice Reform: Detention Reform in Rural Areas
2008
This report details a variety of special techniques, tactics, and strategies that can help rural areas accomplish detention reform effectively. The report highlights the importance in focusing on rural detention reform; five principles to guide detention reform in rural areas; unique characteristics of rural communities and rural youth; the particular issues that may make rural detention reform more difficult; profiles of two promising rural detention reform efforts (in Illinois and Oregon); lessons learned from implementing detention reform effectively in rural areas and ways in which rural counties can boost their detention reform efforts; and a summary of key lessons, paying special attention to the critical role of leadership in detention reform efforts in rural regions.
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2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-being
2008
This 19th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book provides national and state-by-state information and statistical trends on the conditions of America’s children and families. This year, the KIDS COUNT Data Book essay, “A Road Map for Juvenile Justice Reform,” looks at the nearly 100,000 youth confined to juvenile facilities on any given night in the United States, and what can be done to reduce unnecessary and inappropriate detention and incarceration and increase opportunities for positive youth development and community safety.
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Essay and Data Brief from the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book
2008
This booklet includes the complete 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book essay -- A Road Map for Juvenile Justice Reform -- plus a 3-page chart of state by state data on child well-being as well as a listing of contacts for all state KIDS COUNT grantees.
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Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative: A Successful Approach to Comprehensive Reform
This 12-page brochure, complete with full-page black-and-white photographs, highlights the goals and the accomplishments of the Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative since its launch in 1992.
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2008 KIDS COUNT Data Wheel
2008
The Data Wheel is a popular and easy way to view the status of children in every state and the District of Columbia, based on information from the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book. Discover every state’s rate on each indicator and the state’s overall rank, based on these indicators.
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Kids Count Essay 2008 Summary
2008
This summary version of the 2008 KIDS COUNT essay, A Road Map for Juvenile Justice, presents the six pervasive challenges raised in the essay that face our nation’s juvenile justice systems today. It highlights key facts and data, and offers promising solutions for approaches that have been proven to improve outcomes for youth, families, taxpayers, and communities.
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State-Level Detention Reform: A Practice Guide for State Advisory Groups
2008
This is a “how-to” leadership guide designed for a highly-specialized and specific audience: State juvenile justice advisory group members (or “SAG” members) who advise and guide the implementation of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) in the states, territories and District of Columbia. This guide highlights examples of leadership and the work of SAG members in key states that have been front-runners in advancing the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) via SAG leadership.
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Detention Reform: An Effective Public Safety Strategy
2007
This 4-page issue brief describes how Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) helps juvenile justice officials reduce crime while reserving scarce public safety resources for more effective ways to supervise young people.
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Juvenile Detention Reform: Guide for County Officials
2007
Using Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative's (JDAI) model sites as examples, a new educational tool published by the National Association of Counties provides compelling arguments why county officials should undertake detention reform. The 12-page guide introduces readers to the concepts of detention reform, provides data analyses and cost comparisons, and illustrates outcomes achieved in JDAI sites across the nation.
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