I first entered the juvenile justice system when I was just 15. After bouncing in and out for a few years, I aged out at 18 and found myself completely on my own. I wanted to get on a better path. But ...

Students who are suspended from school even once are much more likely to have contact with the juvenile justice system, according to new research from Rice University's Houston Education Research ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in April. Rick Dempsey said his son was a good kid. “Straight-A student, honor roll, taking all college-level classes,” said Dempsey, a Porter County ...

States need to reverse the decline of residential psychiatric treatment options for youth, before juvenile detention becomes the default alternative.

If it’s not the biggest scandal in American legal history, many are calling it at least the darkest day for the country’s troubled juvenile-justice system. For more than four years earlier this decade ...

A number of strategies are explored to prevent juvenile justice involvement and the negative impact of youth incarceration on youth and their families. Trauma-based interventions and efforts to ...

Calls for juvenile justice reform are growing louder in Maryland, and now Gov. Wes Moore says he agrees that changes are ...

Young people in the U.S. who end up in the juvenile justice system often leave the system much worse than when they entered. But American youth know little to nothing about the juvenile justice system ...

That time, Cameron spent over two months in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center before a judge ruled him delinquent of aggravated robbery and several other felonies between his two cases. A ...

District Attorney John Creuzot said Dallas' juvenile justice system is so broken, it is creating more crime instead of addressing problems. Dallas County's juvenile justice system is woefully falling ...

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family reported the results of the public deliberation on the age criteria for juvenile ...