Category: Juvenile Justice

Cash-strapped states cut juvenile justice programs By JIM DAVENPORT - December 26, 2008 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - State budget cuts are forcing some of the nation's youngest criminals out of counseling programs and group homes and into juvenile prisons in what critics contend is a shortsighted move that will eventually lead to ... Read More

The Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) today released a research bulletin, Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls, which reports that despite the rise in female juvenile crime, violence among female youth has not increased. Following a sharp increase in ... Read More