Rehabilitation trumps 'get-tough' policies in juvenile detention
A training program for youth justice officers that develops interpersonal and behavior management skills has improved safety and culture at its trial sites.
A training program for youth justice officers that develops interpersonal and behavior management skills has improved safety and culture at its trial sites.
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Mar 11, 2022
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For a child leaving juvenile detention, building a relationship with a teacher who believes in them can make all the difference. A new Stanford-led study suggests that a personalized one-page letter can go a long way toward ...
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Oct 5, 2021
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A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) reports that among elementary school-aged children, Black children and multiracial children who were at least partly Black, are at ...
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Aug 12, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified calls to end the detention of migrant children, as cases surge among children held in crowded conditions; yet immigration detention's threats to children's fundamental rights did not begin ...
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Jul 14, 2021
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In recent years, many juvenile courts have adopted in-home detention with electronic monitoring tethers as an alternative to institutional incarceration. A new study has examined whether this approach reduces recidivism among ...
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Jun 21, 2021
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The British Home Office has received heavy criticism in recent weeks after it emerged people held in immigration detention centers were struggling to access mobile phone reception and could not reach lawyers to challenge ...
Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2020
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Young people in the U.S. who end up in the juvenile justice system often leave the system much worse than when they entered.
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Nov 5, 2019
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Rates of self-harm among asylum seekers in detention are more than 200 times the Australian community rates for hospital-treated self-harm, according to new research.
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Oct 15, 2019
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Private prisons play a political role in immigration and incarceration issues in the United States and the industry may face obstacles as well as opportunities in the current political landscape, a new paper from an Oregon ...
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Jun 25, 2019
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This week, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, labeled the world's refugee problem a crisis that is primarily impacting developing countries, who are hosting most of the world's 70 million displaced people.
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Jun 20, 2019
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