knowledge brief
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Knowledge Brief: Can Risk Assessment Improve Juvenile Justice Practices?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- A growing number of juvenile justice experts are suggesting a new, potentially more effective approach to reducing recidivism: first identify a youth’s risk of re-offending; then match services…
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Knowledge Brief: Are Minority Youths Treated Differently in Juvenile Probation?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- While many studies have examined disproportionate minority contact at the front endof the juvenile justice system, few have examined disparities deep within the system—in particular,…
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Knowledge Brief: Mental Health Services in Juvenile Justice: Who pays? What gets paid for? And who gets to decide?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- Providing effective mental health services for youths in the juvenile justice system raisescomplex policy questions, including: Who pays? What services get paid for? And who getsto decide? The…
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Knowledge Brief: Does Mental Health Screening Fulfill Its Promise?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- As many as two-thirds of youths in pre-trial detention exhibit behaviors serious enough to qualify them for a mental disorder. Under the stress of detention, these youths can act out in ways that are…
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Knowledge Brief: Is There a Link between Child Welfare and Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile Justice?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- African-American children are represented in foster care and other child welfare placements at a rate more than twice their representation in the U.S. child population. Like others in the child…
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Knowledge Brief: Harnessing the Capacity for Change
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- Organizational change requires more than good ideas. Organizations must also have thecapacity and resources necessary to reach the desired goals. In this project, the researchers interviewed and…
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Knowledge Brief: How Can We Know If Juvenile Justice Reforms Are Worth the Cost?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- With governments at every level facing grim budget forecasts, policymakers need to knowas much as possible about what juvenile justice activities yield the greatest social good fora given level of…
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An Executive Summary: Rethinking Juvenile Justice
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg, leading figures in juvenile law and adolescent developmental psychology, have brought their disciplines together to define a new approach to juvenile crime.…
