Youth Justice Trends

Youth Justice by the Numbers - The Sentencing Project

On a typical day, 74 out of 100,000 youth nationwide are held in juvenile facilities, pre- and post-adjudication, with rates varying widely ...

Youth and the Juvenile Justice System: 2022 National Report

major depressive disorders, edu- cation, victims of serious violence, school crime, self-reported drug use, chapters on youth in juvenile court and youth in ...

Trends in Juvenile Offending: What You Need to Know

This report focuses on trends in violent and nonviolent juvenile offending from 2016 through 2022.

Youth Justice By The Numbers - The Sentencing Project

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Sickmund,. M. (2023). Residential placement trends 1975-2019. [Unpublished data, available upon request.] ...

National Trends in Juvenile Justice

Transferring youth to the adult justice system is particularly ineffective in reducing future criminal behavior. A recent national meta-analysis found a median ...

Statistics - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

The Data Snapshot series provides a brief, visual overview of current statistics and analyses about youth in juvenile justice systems. Each one-page Snapshot ...

Youth arrests and violent crime are down, but other trends point to ...

Nationwide, youth arrests for violent crimes are at historically low levels. However, states have been experiencing rising homicide rates in ...

Juvenile Justice Trends - NCSC

Rise in juvenile violence in mid- 1980s to mid-. 1990s across the country. National loss of faith in the rehabilitative model of the juvenile justice system ...

Transforming Youth Justice Systems to Eliminate Disparities and ...

The milestone arrives at a time when state and local reforms are threatened by polarized politics and media narratives regarding youth crime, ...

The State of Youth Justice (2024) - Russell Webster

There were just under 8,400 child first time entrants (FTEs) to the youth justice system. For the first time in the last ten years, the number ...

Greater focus on crime sparks another wave of juvenile justice bills

The wave of juvenile justice legislation and policy changes comes amid a heightened public perception that crime, including youth crime, is rising.

JJIE Hub: Reform Trends — Evidence-based Practices

Several studies have found that treating youth in the community has positive results for the youth and reduces further juvenile justice system involvement. In a ...

7 Juvenile Justice Reform Trends to Watch For in 2022

The following 7 topics are trending in the juvenile justice, criminal justice, and child welfare systems.

CFYJ Reports - Campaign for Youth Justice

“Winning the Campaign: State Trends in Fighting the Treatment of Children As Adults in the Criminal Justice System" finds that the number of children ...

The State of Youth Justice | Vera Institute

1. State and local governments are starting to limit when youth can be locked up. · 2. A new model emerges for the treatment of young people behind bars. · 3.

Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System

Though overall rates have been steadily declining over the past years, approximately 423,077 delinquency cases are adjudicated and disposed in juvenile courts ...

Youth Justice in the COVID-19 Pandemic

These divergent trends show that it is critical to document what worked and build on that foundation to transform the administration of justice for young people ...

Navigating Concerns on Youth Crime, Violence, and Behavioral ...

Policymakers, public agencies, and communities are increasingly concerned about youth crime, violence, school absences, and behavioral health.

Juvenile Justice History - CJCJ.org

In the 1990s this tough on crime trend accelerated. Tougher laws made it easier to transfer youth offenders to the criminal justice system. By the mid-1990s ...

Juvenile Justice - Youth.gov

A truly successful case for youth would result in the adolescent learning from the experience without exposure to the severity of an adult prison, altering ...