The long-term, sometimes lifelong, impact of a criminal record often keeps many qualified people from obtaining employment and accessing housing, hi...
This white paper reviews the literature exploring the relationship between family contact and short- and long-term outcomes for youth in the juvenile ...
This issue brief highlights the key findings of the survey and provides state and local policymakers with policy and practice recommendations to impro...
This article focuses primarily on juvenile justice policies and practices for youth returning to their communities from out-of-home placements (e.g., ...
This framework document synthesizes lessons learned about promising practices, and it provides information about the context surrounding children and ...
This report, from the Center for Community Alternatives, builds upon what was revealed in their 2010 study, "The Use of Criminal History Records in Co...
This paper, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law's Health Matrix Journal of Law-Medicine, will compare competing jurisdictions’ policies...
This resource brief, from the National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), is intended to support juvenile defense advocacy by providing an overview of s...
Nebraska recently became the 11th state to pass “Ban the Box,” a law that removes questions about criminal records on state job applications. Enacted ...