The national nonprofit training and policy organization’s first annual awards ceremony webinar takes place Feb. 3 ...

HARRISBURG, PA — Community organizations across Pennsylvania can now compete for $5 million in state funding aimed at preventing youth violence and reducing involvement in the juvenile justice system ...

If a Democratic voter were to scan Judge Leah Shapiro’s resume and extracurricular efforts to improve the juvenile court system, they might wonder why she has a primary challenger. Shapiro, 46, is ...

Connecticut juvenile justice advocates are pushing legislation this year to expand the state’s early parole eligibility for crimes committed as minors to include people up to the age of 25. Allowing ...

Empathy, our capacity to feel the inner experience of another, underlies much of our behavior and the choices and decisions ...

While this was a serious case, Rafael Goyeneche from the Metropolitan Crime Commission said the district attorney and jurors did not oppose the judge leaving, and justice was served.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Richard L. Bean Juvenile Justice Center has been licensed by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services for the first time in several years, a milestone leaders say signals ...

Several state’s attorneys have pushed back against legislation in the Maryland General Assembly that would reduce the number of children charged as adults in Maryland. Pamela Chung, the chief of the ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — How old is "old enough" to face adult consequences for a crime? That question took center stage at the State House on Thursday as lawmakers debated House Bill 409, also known as the ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...