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The findings in a University of Texas-Austin study suggest the need for changes in the approach to youth justice, according to researchers. “It’s time we shifted focus from stopping bad guys to helping kids be good guys,” said the study author.
While the joint report by the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention noted vast improvements, it also pointed out that Black juveniles continue to bear the brunt of incarceration.
The mass incarceration policies in Alabama, Florida and Louisiana serve as both a warning and an object lesson for the rest of the country, says a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
While many Americans view anti-trafficking reform as an altruistic endeavor to combat modern slavery, most interventions aren’t effective, and some are secondarily exploitative―which arguably further stigmatizes and marginalizes already vulnerable victims and survivors, writes a trafficking expert.
Through a series of interviews and surveys, North Carolina researchers uncovered “a cycle of economic consequences” that push families and justice-involved youth further into an economic crisis. The researchers note that Black families are disproportionately harmed by the juvenile justice system.
North Carolina lawmakers are reaching across the aisle to push for juvenile justice reform this legislative session with two bipartisan bills aspiring to make their way to the governor’s desk that aim to change the way young people are treated within the criminal justice system.
Experts say that traffickers have been able to exploit economic anxieties fueled by COVID, while using the Internet to advertise, recruit and exploit their victims. A new report tracks trafficking “hot spots” across the U.S.
Researchers from the Urban Institute propose restructuring community supervision for justice-involved youth by shifting to a “safety infrastructure” that provides them with the support and resources they need to grow into adulthood without being exposed to the risk of incarceration.
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health found that half of Black children, as well as half of Native American children, experienced a California Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation at some point during the first 18 years of their lives, compared to nearly a quarter of white children.
In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that juvenile offenders need not be found permanently incorrigible before being sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, ending a series of decisions that had steadily expanded protections for children convicted of serious crimes.