Items related to juvenile crime

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The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California Has Quietly Plummeted: Sep 13, 2018; The Voice of San Diego quotes CJCJ's Senior Research Fellow Mike Males in an article on California's steadily declining youth crime trends and emptying juvenile justice facilities.
It’s Going Down: Sep 11, 2018; The Santa Fe Reporter cites research by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in an article on declining youth crime and incarceration rates in New Mexico.
New Report: The Prosecution of Youth as Adults in California: Oct 18, 2016; A new report presents 2015 trends in California’s use of “direct file,” wherein prosecutors are granted sole discretion to file charges against youth as young as 14 years old directly in adult criminal court.