We are pleased to announce the launch of our juvenile justice page, where policymakers, practitioners, researchers, advocates, and the media can visit to obtain data and analysis on juvenile justice matters. The juvenile justice system is undergoing important reforms, including diverting more youth from secure confinement, adopting evidence-based programming, and recording information about youth in the system with greater accuracy than in earlier periods. Still, with nearly 100,000 youth in detention on any given day, and nearly 2,000 young people sentenced to juvenile life without parole sentences, an urgent need for a more rational approach to juvenile delinquency remains.
Our juvenile justice page contains information and analysis on a broad range of issues, including:
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Juvenile life sentences;
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Overrepresentation of youth of color;
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Transfer of juveniles to the adult system; and
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Youth reentry.
As with our other topical web pages, the juvenile justice page contains information under advocacy, publications, and news. In addition to the resources on the juvenile justice page, our Web site also contains a 50-state map of data on all aspects of the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
Our thanks to Joseph Rodriguez whose photo illustrates the new Web page.
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