The Probation Experience Project: Insights from Young People and Families
Testimony of Josh Rovner Director of Youth Justice The Sentencing Project In Opposition to SB744 Before the Maryland Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Toward Mercy: Excessive Sentencing and the Untapped Power of North Carolina’s Constitution
Matter of Cody VV., 205 N.Y.S. 3d 772 (N.Y. App. Div. 2024)
People v. Clark, 542 P.3d. 1085 (Cal. 2024)
Career Resource Guide 2023
This guide contains the following resources to help interested students and graduates with their career search in the youth defense field: Overview of the Juvenile Legal Process Juvenile Court Terminology Youth Defense Policy and Practice Clinical Programs Public Interest Career Fairs Debt Management and Summer Funding Opportunities Project-Based, Post-Graduate Fellowships Youth Defense Policy and Practice…
Read MoreNational Youth Defense System Standards
Outlines steps that states must take to comply with the minimum requirements of the U.S. Constitution to protect the rights of youth facing deprivations of liberty.
Read MoreIn the Interest of J.A.T.
In the Interest of C.A.R.A.
In the Matter of the Personal Restraint of Miller
In re Gault
J.D.B. v. North Carolina, 564 U.S. 261 (2011)
Commonwealth v. Sheldon Mattis
Juvenile Amenability in Discretionary Transfers
Impact on Child Justice in a World of Digital Courts: Perspectives from the Bench
Disproportionate School Brutality upon Black Children
A Post-Dobbs Future: Bailing Water Downstream to Center Democracy’s Children
Only Young Once: Alabama’s Overreliance on School Pushout and For-Profit Youth Incarceration
What We Need to Thrive: A Youth-Led Vision for a Just Alameda County
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Ceres Policy Research Center partnered with youth leaders in Alameda County, California, to assess the current landscape of the juvenile legal system and outline a youth-centered vision for the future. Utilizing a youth participatory action research protocol, this report relied on youth leaders to design and implement…
Read MoreOne in Five: How Mass Incarceration Deepens Inequality and Harms Public Safety
People v. Parks Opinion
Jones v. Mississippi Opinion
Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. 190 (2016)
In the Matter of Monschke Opinion
A Critical Discussion of Youth Miranda Waivers, Racial Inequity, and Proposed Policy Reforms
Sydney Baker et al., 29 Psychol. Pub. Pol’y & L. 320 (2023). This article is a call to action for the research community and advocates to engage youth and families with lived experience in the legal system in research on the impacts of race, development, and identity on youth interrogations. The authors detail the limitations…
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