How locking kids in solitary confinement became normal

I remember the first time I ever saw a child locked up in a men's prison. I was walking down the corridor of a maximum-security prison,...

California conference to highlight juvenile treatment

Michael Caldwell, co-founder of the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center in Wisconsin, will share his Center’s innovative approach to treatin...

School violence and criminology: Free article access

This month only, Routledge (publisher of multiple academic journals) is offering free access to a series of articles on school violence rele...

Forensnips aplenty, forensnips galore

Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich ...

Attorney-client privilege trumps child abuse reporting law, court rules

Elijah W. ruling clarifies thorny issue in California Forensic psychologists are split as to whether we must breach confidentiality when a c...

Risk screening worthless with juvenile sex offenders, study finds

Boys labeled as 'sexually violent predators ' not more dangerous Juveniles tagged for preventive detention due to their supposedly...

Evaluating juveniles: Grisso's classic updated for new era

In the 1990s a moral panic swept through the United States over juvenile "super-predators," ruthless youngsters devoid of empathy...