April 7, 2015
Zoe Schein

Member Publications:
 

• "OP-ED: Germany’s ‘Normalized’ Juvenile Facilities a Success," March 17, 2015, Elizabeth Clarke, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 
   
• Class, Not Court: Reconsidering Texas’ Criminalization of Truancy, March, 2015, Texas Appleseed. The publication was accompanied by an infographic showing how current Texas truancy policy fails students.

Research:
 

• "Did New York's 'Close to Home' Initiative Work?" March 16, 2015, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 
  
  
• "Psychosocial Maturity and Desistance From Crime in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders," March, 2015, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.  
  
  
• Youth violence continues to decline to 33 year low, March, 2015, National Criminal Justice Reference Service. 
  
  
• "Traumatic Brain Injury Among Newly Admitted Adolescents in the New York City Jail System," February 17, 2014, Journal of Adolescent Health. 
  
  
•  "Psychiatric Disorders and Violence: A Study of Delinquent Youth After Detention," April 2015, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Useful Tools:

Editorials:

• "Backing Away from Zero Tolerance," March 26, 2015, Editorial Board, The New York Times. 
  

• "California rightly revisits its tough-on-youth-crime stance," March 26, 2015, Editorial Board,Los Angeles Times.  

• "State laws on sex offenders should not be crafted by emotion," March 29, 2015, Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times. 

• "The Gatekeepers: Four Ways Lawmakers Can Improve Their Decision-Making,"  March 16, 2015, by Brian Elderbroom and Lauren-Brooke Eisen, The Marshall Project.

• "Op-Ed: It is time to unshackle Connecticut’s juvenile defendants," March 24,2015, by Marisa Mascolo Halm, CT Mirror.

• "Victims Aren’t Who You Think They Are," March 10, 2015, by Paul Ashton, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 

• "Locking Up Traumatized Girls Is No Way to Help Them," April 2, 2015, Liz Ryan, The Huffington Post. 

• "When It Comes to Youth Justice, A Look Abroad Could Teach Us Lessons," March 31, 2015, by Diane Sierpina at Youth Transition Funders Group. 

News, Publications, and Web Resources: 

•  "Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Miller Retroactivity Issue," March 23, 2015, by Gary Gately,Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 

• "Justice Department investigating Dallas County’s truancy court, juvenile district courts," March 31, 2015, by Robert Wilonsky, The Dallas Morning News.

• "Advocates Laud Florida Supreme Court Decisions," March 20, 2015, by Gary Gately, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. 

• "Toward a Positive Youth Justice System," April 1, 2015, by John Kelly, The Chronicle of Social Change. 

• "Level 14: How a home for troubled children came undone and what it means for California’s chance at reform," April 2, 2015, by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica. 

• "District expected to end routine shackling of juveniles in court," April 2, 2015, Keith L. Alexander, The Washington Post. 

• "11 People Who Used to Be in Jail — But Are Now Changing the World," April 2, 2015, Darnell L. Moore, Mic.com. 
  

• "A radical approach to discipline that starts with listening to students," April 2, 2015, by Merideth Kolodner, PBS Newshour. 
  

• "The Worst State for Kids Up Against the Law," March 24, 2015, by Eli Hager, The Marshall Project. [SPOILER: It's Florida.]

• "Robert Listenbee's 10 Points for Juvenile Justice Reform," March, 2015, by Claire Chiamulera, American Bar Association. 

• "NACO Passes Juvenile Justice Reform Resolutions," March, 2015. The National Association of Counties' Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee passed two juvenile justice related resolutions related to 1) the unnecessary restraint of children in court and 2) the reauthorization of the JJDPA.

Events:

• This year, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice and the Government Relations Committee will host a training webinar, "Improving Your Advocacy Skills: How to Make Your Legislative Visit a Success," on April 22 at 3 pm ET. In addition to discussing CJJ's priorities for the 114th Congress, it will also give key pointers for Capitol Hill visits and an overview of the rules of what does and does not constitute lobbying. This webinar is open to CJJ members and allies, though preference in registration will be given to members. Click here to register for the training webinar! 
  
  
• On April 29, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice will host a webinar on "LGBT & Gender Non-Conforming Youth in Juvenile Justice: Building an Equitable System with Data, Training, and Policy." The webinar will feature Dr. Angela Irvine of the National Council on Crime & Delinquency (NCCD) and Christina Gilbert of The Equity Project. Registration will open soon. Learn more about NCCD's research on this issue in Dr. Irvine's recent blog post, "LGBT/GNC Youth in Juvenile Justice."  
  
  
• The New Jersey Parents' Caucus (part of the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Reform Coalition, an NJJN member)  is offering a free five-week Professional Parent Advocacy Training program for families and caregivers raising children with emotional and behavioral challenges who are involved in the mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare and/or special education systems.  Parents and caregivers attending the training are given the opportunity to strengthen their knowledge of the systems that serve their families, their rights and responsibilities within those systems, and the advocacy, professional, and collaborative skills needed to successfully negotiate those systems.  Parents will become better able to advocate for themselves and their communities, resulting in increased access to appropriate care and treatment for all children. If interested, e-mail info@njparentcaucus.org for registration information.

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