The federal government has cut millions from programs proven to reduce incarceration and promote safer, stronger communities.

The city is enforcing a 10 p.m. curfew for youth who are 15 years old and younger and midnight for 16-and 17-year-olds. If ...

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

A new batch of complaints filed Tuesday include 107 new cases of alleged sexual abuse at Illinois Youth Centers and the Cook ...

CHICAGO — Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers, attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits said Wednesday.

Last week, the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) made an announcement that many of us in Dundalk —a nd across Baltimore County — have long been waiting for: Going ...

As summer continues to heat up, the city of Detroit is in the midst of its summer safety teen violence prevention plan.

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Two juveniles were shot inside a car in Cincinnati overnight, and one of them has died, police tell FOX19 ...

The origins of juvenile delinquency in Africa depend on multiple and complex factors. These include economic insecurity, ...

One of the first things you’ll learned if you study colonial American history is that parents were charged and held ...

Law enforcement officials say it’s not the boys in blue on patrol but rather city-run youth programs that are shifting the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.