Federal welfare reform may end up burdening the country's already stressed juvenile justice system, warns Katherine Hunt Federle, director of the Justice for Children Project, Ohio State University, Columbus. Benefit reductions are expected to place an additional 1,200,000 children below the poverty...
International Handbook of Juvenile Justice John Graham& Colleen Moore 1447Accesses Abstract A quarter of a century ago, the prevailing view about how best to respond to juve-nile11The terms ‘juvenile’ and ‘youth’ are used interchangeably here, although strictly speaking juveniles are defined in...
Juvenile justice Swedish style: A rose by another name? 1994, Justice Quarterly Deinstitutionalization and Its Impact on Swedish Corrections 1985, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Swedish youth welfare programmes 1977, International Social WorkView...
The criminal justice and child welfare systems were built on the foundations of cisnormativity and heteronormativity, making LGBTQ youth susceptible to systemic oppression and discrimination when compared to their youth counterparts. As such, this paper examines the unique experiences of LGBTQ youth in ...
There are thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 3 ("LGBT") young people in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems throughout the country. Unfortunately these systems routinely subject LGBT youth to differential treatment, deny them appropriate services and fail to protect them...
The Link: Connecting Juvenile Justice and Child WelfareShenk, EPrice, J M
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(2008) identified life-course-persistent, adolescent-onset, childhood-limited, and low trajectory (i.e., defined by consistently low levels of antisocial conduct problems) groups with regard to patterns of general antisocial behaviors committed by boys; a two-group model was best applied to ...
Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems The introductory chapter provides an overview of the status of education and well-being among adults, children in the foster care system and juvenile justice system, and "crossover" youth...
This issue of "The Link" newsletter contains the following articles: (1) Convention on the Rights of the Child and Juvenile Justice (Jenni Gainborough and Elisabeth Lean); and (2) ABA (American Bar Association) Policy and Report on Crossover and Dual Jurisdiction Youth. Director's Message, ...