Selena Teji, CJCJ’s Communication Specialist, discussed “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice” on KQED’s Forum with Barry Krisberg, director of the Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, and Brian Brown, managing principal analyst at the Legislative Analyst’s Office. If you missed the show, go to “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice ” or review the summary below. The above-mentioned experts discussed the following juvenile justice realignment…
Holder targets school discipline practices: ‘unacceptable,’ ‘destructive’ The Daily Caller, February 27, 2012
Feb 24, 2012
Phasing Out Juvenile Justice
Phasing Out Juvenile Justice KQED Radio, February 24, 2012
Last week the LAO released a report entitled “Completing Juvenile Justice Realignment” . The report supports Governor Brown’s juvenile realignment proposal and calls for a staggered closure of DJF facilities while transferring funding and supervision responsibilities to the county level. The LAO notes that the state’s current two-tier system where the state supervises just 1% of incarcerated youth limits county responsibility, limits coordination of community-based…
Feb 22, 2012
Plan to end juvenile justice division faces fight
Plan to end juvenile justice division faces fight San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2012
Report: Yolo County Highest Direct File Rate of Juvenile Cases in the State Yolo Judicial Watch, February 17, 2012
Blog Feb 21, 2012
Part IV: Give me that old time religion [video blog]
CJCJ’s Senior Research Fellow, Randall Shelden, discusses his blog series “Give me that old time religion” in this video blog. The series explores the inside of Christian homes for troubled teens and uncovers a multitude of abuses. Read the whole series here: Part I: $1cjcj.org/news/5403$4 Part II: $1cjcj.org/news/5406$4 Part III: $1cjcj.org/news/5408$4 To view Randall Shelden’s blog, please visit www.sheldensays.com
A CJCJ co-sponsored event, Can California Reduce Its Juvenile Justice Recidivism Rates? is taking place today: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 in the California State Capitol, Room 126 at 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm . Testimony will be provided by juvenile justice experts and community organization grantees with recidivism rates below 15%. Executive Director, Daniel Macallair, will present recidivism data in California, San Francisco County’s Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Team (JCRT) model, and…
Feb 18, 2012
Trying youths in adult courts proving ineffective
Trying youths in adult courts proving ineffective Capitol Weekly, February 16, 2012
Feb 18, 2012
Report: State Should Shut Down Youth Prison System
Report: State Should Shut Down Youth Prison System Bay Citizen, February 17, 2012
Feb 16, 2012
High-Needs Kids and Juvenile Justice Reforms
High-Needs Kids and Juvenile Justice Reforms California Progress Report, February 16, 2012
Blog Feb 16, 2012
Cops in Schools
The evidence is clear: having police on school campuses creates more problems than it solves. This evidence has been provided by a detailed report from the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) called “Education Under Arrest: The Case Against Police in Schools .” The reported noted that between 1997 and 2007 the number of “school resource officers” (SRO’s) increased by 38%, largely as a result of zero tolerance policies enacted during this time. Paralleling this growth has been the increase of…