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Juvenile Justice Alert: Sacramento’s Juvenile Crime is Not on the Rise: A Review of the Numbers

A court-appointed Special Master monitors DJF’s compliance with the Farrell consent decree and through the issuance of periodic progress reports. This is a summary of the reports. 

Racial Disparities and the Drug War

Criminologist Randall G. Shelden analyzes juvenile issues through the lens of social justice, linking social inequality, including the unique problems of girls growing up in a patriarchal society, to delinquency and crime.

Restructuring Juvenile Corrections in California

Nevada Pot Policy a Bust

From Houses of Refuge to Youth Corrections’: Same Story, Different Day

Slavery in the Third Millennium

Governor Takes On Prison Reform The California Report, December 202004

With 2,500 fatal murders and suicides every month, the typical shooter is white and grownup, 90% are by adults.

Why are we so Punitive? Some Observations on Recent Incarceration Trends

Troubles in the CYA Nothing New