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Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

February 5, 2013

The rate of kids being incarcerated is declining in the United States as public safety is increasing. This data brief presents the trend in how we are treating juvenile...

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Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative 2012 Annual Results Report

January 1, 2013

This report shares findings from the most comprehensive review ever conducted of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s ambitious Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI). It...

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Expanding JDAI's Focus to Reduce Commitments and Placements: Program Summary

March 6, 2012

Each year in the United States, thousands of children are placed inappropriately and unnecessarily into youth corrections facilities and various forms of congregate residential...

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Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative 2011 Annual Results Report

February 25, 2012

This document presents data trends and reports program impact for the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative as of 2011.

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FAMILY Comes First Executive Summary

January 1, 2012

This report provides an executive summary of FAMILY Comes First, a comprehensive effort to analyze and improve the practice of engaging families in the juvenile justice system.

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No Place for Kids Issue Brief

December 12, 2011

This issue brief summarizes a report which assembles decades of research as well as persuasive new data to demonstrate that America’s heavy reliance on juvenile incarceration...

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No Place for Kids

October 4, 2011

The case against America’s youth prisons and correctional training schools can be neatly summarized in five words: dangerous, ineffective, unnecessary, wasteful and inadequate.

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Resolution, Reinvestment, and Realignment

September 6, 2011

This report reviews the history and development of three juvenile justice reform strategies and analyzes their impact on policy, practice and public safety.

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Bridges to Manhood

May 1, 2011

The juvenile probation office in Cook County, IL, created a fatherhood program to keep delinquent dads on track toward probation. This report details that program.

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