For 36 years Congress has been trying to address juvenile delinquency through mandated programs. With far-reaching racial disparity in the system, Cynthia Gordy of The Root investigates the ...

Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and ...

Sending a young person to a Los Angeles County juvenile probation camp to be supervised and rehabilitated costs about $247,000 a year.

When news broke that a 15-year-old girl was sent to juvenile detention for the “crime” of not doing her online homework, it did not surprise anyone who follows juvenile justice in America. The ...

1. The proportion of girls caught up in the juvenile justice system is increasing.In New YorkNationallyMore than 2,000 children are placed in the custody of New York's juvenile justice agency every ...

A decade after joining a national effort to reform the juvenile justice system, Franklin County has seen the number of youths arrested and detained for delinquency offenses plummet. Delinquency ...

In response, less than halfway into his term, 317th District Civil Court Judge Gordon Friesz created FORM — First-time ...

“We are cautiously optimistic about the future of the juvenile system,” writes Ivan J. Bates on behalf of Maryland’s state’s attorneys.

While media reports have focused on an uptick in juvenile crime, the data shows these patterns have decreased over the last ...

Juvenile crime reforms should focus on accountability and not on putting more young people in jail. ... There are reasons to improve the juvenile justice system in Maryland.

Once the delinquency, which alleges a criminal offense, or undisciplined, which alleges that the youth is out of control of the home, complaint comes before the juvenile justice counselor, they ...