Juvenile Justice Research Data & Publications
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07/15/08
CDF Letter of Support for the Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention Act (JJDPA)
Children's Defense Fund Letter of Support for Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention Act (S.3155) Children's Defense Fund Letter of Support for Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention Act (S.3155) -
06/27/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "We Must Pay Attention to the Rise of Gun Violence"
"Over a 48-hour period this Memorial Day weekend, 21 people were shot in New York City, six fatally. A gunman opened fire on a crowd in a shopping district in Queens and wounded five people. A 15-year-old was killed while leaving a party in Manhattan. A 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl were wounded in Harlem..." -
06/20/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Mothers Rocking the Prison Cradle"
"Many mothers who experience childbirth are coached through labor in a hospital maternity ward with supportive doctors and nurses. Their husbands may capture the birth with a video camera. After the baby’s bawling first breaths, mother and child bond in a joyous embrace.." -
06/20/08
Planning a Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Event
Guidelines for planning your own Cradle to Prison Pipeline Event. -
06/09/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "CDF Gun Report Shows Increase of Child and Teen Deaths"
"Imagine a bullet fired from a semiautomatic pistol, moving through the night darkness faster than the speed of sound—more than 1,200 feet per second or four football fields end to end. Now imagine that bullet slamming into the body of a child like a brick through a picture window...." -
05/28/08
Protect Children, Not Guns 2008
The Children's Defense Fund's 2008 report on the affect gun violence has on our society and our children. -
05/16/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Congress Must Act to Protect Young Detainees from Abuse"
"In recent years, the Children's Defense Fund has received horrifying reports of the physical and sexual abuse of children and teens in juvenile correctional facilities. There are accounts of children being forced to eat their own vomit, of children being left naked for weeks in small isolation cells with nothing but a hole in the floor for a toilet...." -
04/28/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Prison Abuse testimony
CDF President Marian Wright Edelman's testimony on Prison Abuse Remedies Act of 2008 -
03/28/08
Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign Discussion Guide
Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign Discussion Guide, Case Studies from the Pipeline with discussion questions -
03/14/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Missouri's Humane and Sensible Approach to Juvenile Justice"
"At younger and younger ages, children and teens who go through the juvenile justice systems of many states are condemned to long terms at large youth detention centers and adult prisons only to languish in cells surrounded by thick walls and razor wire...."
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