Juvenile Justice Research Data & Publications
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05/01/09
Children in the States Factsheets
These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding poverty, health, hunger, child welfare, early childhood development, education and youth at risk for children in 2008 in each state. -
03/31/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® State Factsheets
These factsheets provide basic state-level data on the various issues related to the pipeline including poverty, health care, early childhood education, education, child welfare, juvenile justice system and incarceration, and community violence. They also provide action steps needed to protect and reroute children from the pipeline. -
03/23/09
The New Economic Recovery Law: Resources to Help Children and the Economy
CDF gathered useful materials from federal agencies, congressional sources, and advocacy and other organizations so you can begin familiarizing yourself with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) funding and program activities available in your state and community. To ensure that children and families truly benefit from these increased funds, it is important to identify funding coming into your state that can be used to invest in children, families, and communities. These links will be updated on a regular basis, so check back frequently. -
03/06/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values"
Glenn Loury, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University, has long been one of the nation’s most outspoken Black intellectuals. For many years he was a leading conservative voice on topics like affirmative action, and whenever he focuses on a policy issue affecting the Black community, people pay attention... -
02/27/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Growing Problem of Over-Policing Our Schools"
Imagine being four years old and put into handcuffs because you and your friend wouldn’t take a nap in your pre-K class. Or being five years old, handcuffed, and taken away from your school by ambulance to a hospital psychiatric ward after throwing a tantrum in the kindergarten room. These scenarios might sound far-fetched... -
02/20/09
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "Se celebra esta semana la cumbre nacional “De la Cuna a la Cárcel”"
La mayoría de los niños crecen en Estados Unidos escuchando en voz alta lo que sus padres sueñan y esperan para ellos en su futuro: el éxito en la escuela, una carrera satisfactoria y una familia. Lamentablemente, no son los mismos sueños y expectativas con que crecen muchos de los niños negros y latinos pobres. -
02/20/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "National Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit This Week"
"As most children grow up in America, they hear the out-loud dreams and expectations that their parents and other adults have for them: doing well at school, a fulfilling career and a family. Regrettably, those are not the dreams and expectations that many poor Black and Latino children grow up with. For too many of them, childhood means starting school not ready to learn, not reading at grade level, being pushed out or dropping out of school at younger and younger ages, then hanging out on the corner and getting a "street" education. This often leads to getting sucked into the pipeline to prison, which can best be described as a living nightmare..." -
02/06/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Cradle to Prison Pipeline: America’s New Apartheid"
"Incarceration is becoming the new American apartheid and poor children of color are the fodder. It is time to sound a loud alarm about this threat to American unity and community, act to stop the growing criminalization of children at younger and younger ages, and tackle the unjust treatment of minority youths and adults in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems with urgency and persistence...." -
12/26/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "CDF's 35th Anniversary: Looking Back, Looking Forward"
"As we all look to a new year and pause to remember the highlights of the last one, the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is reflecting on a major milestone: 2008 marked our 35th anniversary. In October, we celebrated with a special event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C." -
12/23/08
State of America's Children 2008® Report - Youths at Risk
CDF's State of America's Children 2008 report is a compilation of national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing. This section of the report contains data on teen birth rates, youth unemployment and drug abuse, incarceration, and firearm deaths.
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