By the time Arrianna Jentink-Bristol paid off the $800 she owed in court debt, it was six months before her 18th birthday, and she had spent nearly the entirety of her teenage years on probation. Jentink-Bristol first entered Michigan’s juvenile justice system when she was 13 after getting into a physical fight with her mother, who she said was intoxicated and punching her three-year-old sister in the face. She remembered being subsequently detained and assigned a public defender who didn’t show up for one of her hearings. Following the arrest, Jentink-Bristol picked up another charge. She cycled through the juvenile justice system for two years and was detained in juvenile facilities, a mental hospital, and put on house arrest and probation, all while her bills continued to stack up.
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SYSTEMIC APPROACHES IN REHABILITATION IN A PRISON SETTING – Inclusive Education and Rehabilitation Model for Juvenile Offenders
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Reforming “Raise the Age” | Manhattan Institute
Dyer Halper explores the consequences as well as the solutions to New York’s Raise the Age legislation, which attempted to combat youth driven crime.
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Age Boundaries of the Juvenile Justice System | Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Access this OJJDP Model Programs Guide literature review which focuses on Age Boundaries of the Juvenile Justice System.
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2021
Juvenile Court Statistics 2021 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile 437,300 delinquency cases and 51,500 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2021 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The report also tracks trends in delinquency and petitioned status cases between 2005 and 2021. The data used in this report were contributed to the Archive by nearly 2,400 courts with jurisdiction over 83% of the juvenile population in 2021.
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Policing Young People in NSW: A study of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan | Public Interest Advocacy Centre
The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police) Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) seeks to prevent future offending by targeting repeat offenders and people police believe are likely to commit future crime. The STMP is both a police intelligence tool that uses risk assessment to identify suspects and a policing program that guides police interaction with individuals who are subject to the program.
— Read on piac.asn.au/2017/10/25/policing-young-people-in-nsw-a-study-of-the-suspect-targeting-management-plan/
Baltimore, Other Cities, Revived Teen Curfews. Here’s Why They Don’t Reduce Crime. | The Marshall Project
Texas recently banned juvenile curfews, while cities like Baltimore and Memphis have doubled-down on them.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/29/youth-curfews-baltimore-texas
Juvenile Court Statistics 2020
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Report shows persistent racial disparities in Kentucky juvenile justice system | WKMS
Despite reforms to Kentucky’s juvenile justice system over the last decade, data shows Black kids continue to disproportionately end up in youth detention compared to white and Hispanic children.
— Read on www.wkms.org/criminal-justice/2023-06-21/report-shows-persistent-racial-disparities-in-kentucky-juvenile-justice-system
Youth and the Juvenile Justice System – 2022 NATIONAL REPORT
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