Prohibiting Secure Juvenile Detention: Assessing the Effectiveness of National Standards Detention Criteria

The Impact of Juvenile Detention on Recidivism

The optimal detention policy for juvenile delinquents presents a challenge to the criminal justice system, which must balance the well-being of the community with that of the juvenile. Detention is often used as a way to protect the community by preventing a juvenile from committing more crimes while awaiting adjudication of the juvenile’s current criminal offense. Detention may however adverse...

Is the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Working?

The Orange County Probation Department has launched an aggressive multi-agency initiative aimed at reforming juvenile detention guidelines by offering alternatives to traditional detention. The vehicle for reform is the innovative, evidence-based Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) point system of the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI), a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The...

Crisis intervention services in juvenile detention centers.

Psychiatric disorders in youth in juvenile detention.

BACKGROUND Given the growth of juvenile detainee populations, epidemiologic data on their psychiatric disorders are increasingly important. Yet, there are few empirical studies. Until we have better epidemiologic data, we cannot know how best to use the system's scarce mental health resources. METHODS Using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children version 2.3, interviewers assessed a ra...

Asylum-seekers and national histories of detention.

The Australian system of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers has become increasingly controversial. Insofar as commentary on detention has been framed historically, critics have pointed to Australia’s race-based exclusionary laws and policies over the twentieth century. In this article, we suggest that exclusion and detention are not equivalent practices, even if they are often related. Here ...