Juvenile Justice Research Data & Publications
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01/22/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Children Drop Out and Into Lives of Poverty and Imprisonment"
A homeless man talking about how he ended up on the streets said he had wanted to get in with the “cool” crowd in 8th or 9th grade—a crowd that smoked marijuana, got into fights, and skipped school. No adult reached out to help him turn his life around so he continued his decline into a life of chronic joblessness and poverty, and long stretches of incarceration after he dropped out of school. -
10/02/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Shooting Deaths of Children Rose for Second Straight Year"
I’m deeply disturbed that after a decade of decline, the number of firearm deaths among children and youths has increased for the second year in a row. Our 2009 “Protect Children, Not Guns” report released in September reveals that almost nine children and teens die from gunfire every day—one child death every two hours and 45 minutes. -
09/16/09
Protect Children, Not Guns 2009
This report provides key findings on child gun deaths including firearm deaths of children and teens by manner (e.g. homicide, suicide, accident, unknown), state, race/hispanic origin, year and age group. The report also provices various ways we can step up and take action to protect children and teens from gun violence. -
09/11/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Keeping Children Out of the Pipeline to Prison"
Hundreds of thousands of our nation’s children are being funneled down life paths that lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and even death. The urgent challenge for each of us and for our nation is to prevent this waste of our children's lives and of our nation's capabilities and future. -
09/04/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Promising Models for Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems"
Nationally, one in three Black boys and one in six Latino boys born in 2001 are at risk of going to prison during their lifetimes. Although boys are more than five times as likely to be incarcerated as girls, the number of girls in the juvenile justice system is significant and growing. -
08/19/09
Youth PROMISE Act Summary
The Youth PROMISE Act shifts the policy paradigm from ineffective punishment and incarceration to evidence-based prevention and intervention to address juvenile delinquency. The Youth PROMISE Act is a helpful response to the pipeline to prison crisis because it takes major steps to substitute the pipeline to prison with a pipeline to successful adulthood for many of our youths. -
08/07/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "We Must Support the Youth PROMISE Act"
Over the last three decades, politicians from Capitol Hill to local city councils have generated law enforcement polices and practices based on the mantra that we have to “get tough on crime.” -
07/15/09
CDF President Marian Wright Edelman's Testimony on the Youth PROMISE Act
CDF President Marian Wright Edelman written testimony for a hearing on the Youth PROMISE Act before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 15, 2009. -
07/06/09
Questions and Answers about the Family Connections Grants
The Children's Defense Fund and Generations United created a Questions and Answers document about the new Family Connections Grants (FCG) from the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2009. -
06/05/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Santa Clara County Probation Program’s Alternative to Warehousing Youths"
At the Children’s Defense Fund’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit in Sacramento, California, we heard from young people from Missouri and California who are trying to get out of the pipeline with the help of caring adults.
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