Best Practices in Juvenile Justice Reform

Data integration in the evaluation of juvenile justice education.

This article discusses the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program's evaluation of juvenile justice education through the integration of multiple data sources. Validation of best practices and the corresponding effect of these practices on community reintegration require the development of a comprehensive database of program-level and individual-level indicators from several sources. T...

Juvenile Justice in Namibia: Law reform towards reconciliation and restorative justice?

Stefan Schulz and Marthinus Hamutenya* Polytechnic of Namibia 2003 Abstract: Namibia is a newly independent nation, which in the wake of colonial oppression and foreign rule has yet to develop a comprehensive juvenile justice system. The current criminal justice system is informed by stereotyped common sense concepts of ‘criminality’ and ‘the criminal’. Simplistic views undergirded by utilitari...

Criminalizing Normal Adolescent Behavior in Communities of Color: the Role of Prosecutors in Juvenile Justice Reform

There is little dispute that racial disparities pervade the contemporary American juvenile justice system. The persistent overrepresentation of youth of color in the system suggests that scientifically supported notions of diminished culpability of youth are not applied consistently across races. Drawing from recent studies on implicit bias and the impact of race on perceptions of adolescent cu...

The Test Case and Law Reform in the Juvenile Justice System

Working Together for Multi-system Youth

On behalf of the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps and Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, we are pleased to bring in 2011 with a new periodical, The Connector: Working Together for Multi-system Youth. As a new partnership focused on cross systems issues takes shape between our two organizations, we are delighted to offer a resource that will provide valuable inf...