Girls and Violence: Tracing the Roots of Criminal Behavior
Seeking to better understand the processes that push teenage girls to acts of criminal violence, Judith Ryder explores the relationship between disrupted emotional bonds and violent delinquency. Ryder draws on intimate interviews to show how teenage girls navigate experiences of abuse, emotional loss, and parental abandonment, revealing how their violent acts become a means of…
Homeless and Runaway Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
As part of the Collaborating for Change: Addressing Youth Homelessness and Juvenile Justice Project, the National Network for Youth has written this brief to document how runaway and homeless youth programs and juvenile justice systems are collaborating to jointly serve youth. The information presented here was collected in a survey of 38 Runaway and Homeless…
Understanding Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) Data for Stanislaus County, CA
Understanding Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) Data for Stanislaus County, CA report highlights the county’s efforts to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system while considering the way that race intersects with sexual orientation, gender identify, and gender expression (SOGIE) among system-involved youth.
Inspection Report: Fresno County Juvenile Justice Campus
Disability Rights California (DRC), the designated federal Protection and Advocacy System for individuals with disabilities in the state of California, conducted a monitoring inspection of the Fresno County Juvenile Justice Campus (JJC) to exercise it’s authority of eliminating abuse and neglect and improving quality of care provided to Californians with disabilities in public and private…
K-12 EDUCATION: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities
The Government Accoutnability Office was asked to review the use of discipline in public schools. They interviewed federal and state officials, as well as officials in 5 school districts from 5 states. Their report examines the schools’ disciplinary actions, challenges of student behaviors and how they approached school discipline and the actions of Education and…
Suicidality and Other Health Risk Behaviors Among Female Youth in Juvenile Detention
Suicidality and Other Health Risk Behaviors Among Female Youth in Juvenile Detention, an article published in Social Work In Public Health, is a study that investigates suicidality and health-risk behaviors among female juvenile detainees and identifies the extent to which suicidal behaviors are correlated with other risky activities.
Conducting Youth Participatory Action Research Through a Healing-Informed Approach with System-Involved Latinas
The National Compadres Network (NCN) developed a project responding to the disparities in the juvenile justice system faced by Latina girls. Through this project, the NCN used a healing-informed curriculum (Xinachtli) and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to engage Latina system-involved girls as equal partners to inform detention alternatives and reform. This paper, published in…
Let Her Learn: Stop School Pushout for Girls Who Are Pregnant or Parenting
Becoming pregnant or having a child should not be the end of anyone’s education. In fact, becoming a parent can be a powerful motivator that encourages young women to focus on their and their children’s futures. Studies have found that student mothers who had previously disengaged from school can find new reasons to return after the birth of a…
Survivor Protection: Reducing the Risk of Trauma to Child Sex Trafficking Victims
Although the federal law has long been clear that child sex trafficking should be viewed as a severe form of trafficking in persons,7 victims of child sex trafficking are still denied the full scope of protections afforded to other victims of violence, and specifically child abuse, including protections that prevent re-traumatizing children who cooperate as…