Community Solutions Toolkit

Widening the Net in Juvenile Justice and the Dangers of Prevention and Early Intervention.

Macallair, D., & Roche, T. (2001). Justice Policy Institute.

 

This report highlights the possible dangers of overusing early intervention and preventative services and provides case studies from California’s juvenile justice system.

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Positive Power: Exercising Judicial Leadership to Prevent Court Involvement and Incarceration of Non-Delinquent Youth.

Coalition for Juvenile Justice. (2012, July 17). SOS Project.

 

This report explores the leadership role of judges to effectively address the needs of youth who are charged in juvenile court with “status offenses,” i.e., actions that are not illegal at the age of adulthood, including curfew violations, possession of alcohol and tobacco, running away and truancy.

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Closing the Widening Net: The Rights of Juveniles at Intake

Birckhead, T. R. (2013, June 12). 46 Texas Tech Law Review. Yale Law School and the University of North at Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law.

 

This article examines the intake process, which operates as one of the primary gateways to juvenile court.

 

Formal System Processing of Juveniles: Effects on Delinquency

Petrosino, A., Turpin-Petrosino, C., & Guckenburg, S. (2013, February). Crime Prevention Research Review (9). U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

 

This meta-analysis shows that processing youth in the formal juvenile justice system does not control crime and in fact increases delinquency