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Search results for "juvenile delinquents" ...
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Drugging Delinquents
The investigation found that Florida was restraining jailed children with heavy doses of potent anti-psychotic drugs, medications that can turn troublemakers into "zombies" and cause serious health problems in kids.
Tags: juvenile; prisons; jailed children; Department of Juvenile Justice
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The F-School Bomb
"F-School Bomb" tells the story of English teacher Erika Selig's attempts to address a serious lack of discipline at Allapattah Middle School where she taught. Through Selig's eyes, readers were able to get a first-hand look into the daunting problems facing children, teachers and administrators inside a title 1 school. From racially charged fights between Hispanic and black students to the pressures of teaching students to pass Florida's standardized tests, Allapattah Middle School exemplified everything that is wrong with inner-city failing schools.
Tags: inner-city schools; education; standardized tests; race; public schools; juvenile delinquents; teaching
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The Color of Justice
The Columbia Daily Tribune investigated arrest rates among juveniles in Columbia, MO, and found that black children were being arrested at much higher rates than white children, even though black children only made up about 18 percent of Columbia's juvenile population. They also found that the city of Columbia had not taken any kind of action to fix the racial imbalance in arrest rates.
Tags: FOIA; unfair arrest rates; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Columbia Police Department; racial profiling
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Where Hope is Locked Away: California's Youth Prisons. A Mercury News Special Report.
This series examines California's failing youth prison system. The state pledged that all youth would receive counseling and rehabilitative treatment, but it seems like the system is too flawed to keep those promises. Now, tear gas, gang violence, and fear are much more common than progress. The reporters specifically focused on five issues: education, treatment, sentencing, parole and alternatives. They compare the California system to better ones in Texas and Missouri.
Tags: Youth Authority; juvenile delinquents; abuse; sex offenders; therapy; mental health; rehabilitation; drugs
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Young and In Trouble: Different Paths for Punishment (part 1) and The Challenge of Rehabilitation (part 2)
This investigation exposed "a huge racial imbalance between the number of white and black youths sent to adult prison in the Bay area, statewide and nationally." The review focused on teens ages 13-17 sentenced to adult prison. Most of the youths sent to adult prison were black; white juvenile delinquents were more likely to be sentenced to house arrest or be put on probation. These articles look at possible hidden causes for the disparity, like the fact that police spend more time in black neighborhoods so are more likely to catch black criminals than white ones. The article also explores the idea that the records don't reflect racism; rather, the situation shows how poor delinquents are more likely to end up in adult prison. The article discusses how being in adult prison affects kids differently than being in a youth-oriented rehabilitation program.
Tags: prison; jail; incarceration; juvenile delinquents; teen court; YES; racial discrimination
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Judgment at Hookyville
Batz gets inside the truancy court system in St. Louis, spending time with judges, juvenile officers, kids and parents. Through many anecdotes and interviews, she exposes the myriad causes of juvenile delinquency and highlights some of the adults who work to save kids from the streets.
Tags: juvenile delinquency; juvenile; detention; truancy; suspension; punishment; court; judge; justice
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Young & Arrestless
Reason magazine examines "the case against expunging juvenile arrest records."
Tags: juvenile arrest records; expunging records; juvenile crimes; expungement laws; juvenile delinquents
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Castaway Children: Maine's Most Vulnerable Kids
Thr Portland Press Herald /Maine Sunday Telegram series on Maine's children with psychiatric and emotional illnesses and funding. Six months was spent interviewing more than 500 sources for the story about Maine's mental health care system for children.
Tags: mental health; children's mental health; mental health services; psychiatric hospitals; suicide; juvenile delinquents
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Delinquents in Suburbia
The American Enterprise looks at criminality among America's middle class suburban juveniles.
Tags: suburbs; juvenile crime; juvenile justice system; juvenile delinquents
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Blurring the lines
Education Weeks looks at Hillsborough County, Florida, which has "forged one of the nation's coziest school-police partnerships in a place where once turf-conscious agencies now stay in close touch."
Tags: schools; police; juvenile offenders; school-police partnerships; juvenile records; criminal history; juvenile delinquents; Juvenile Assessment Center; young offenders