The 9-year-old had been drawing images of guns at school and pretending to point the weapons at other students. He’d become more withdrawn, and had stared angrily at a teacher. The principal suspended ...

It’s not the first time a parent has been held legally responsible for crimes committed by their children —including in helping their child secure a firearm later used in a mass shooting. Still, ...

Over 200 individual state and local juvenile corrections and probation agencies representing 37 states and over 190 counties reported that they are facing greater staffing difficulties than at any ...

Read individual stories, shared with journalist Brian Rinker, about how personal experiences in the juvenile justice system shape three individuals' advocacy of justice reform.

Baltimore’s top elected official vowed to reinstate a curfew last month after a 14-year-old and 16-year-old were shot and injured — allegedly by a teen wielding an untraceable gun made from a kit — ...

Of 1,762 confirmed incidents of youth being sexually harassed, abused or assaulted in juvenile facilities from 2013 through 2018, roughly 28.3% involved adult staff victimizing youth and 71.6% ...

In Ohio, Warren County Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler, a former prosecutor who created one of the state’s earliest drug courts, said they work and are a good idea. “I realized that this is ...

JJIE Hub: Key Issues — Youth Gun Violence Prevention Gun Violence Is an Epidemic Without understanding or considering the underlying circumstances that contribute to gun violence, policymakers are ...

Bullied at his Philadelphia high school, Earl Morris’ son started defying his teachers and his father and allegedly stole from a convenience store. Those charges against the then 15-year-old, who’d ...

The number of children incarcerated in juvenile prisons across the United States fell to an all-time low in 2020, the latest year of available federal data about those facilities, fueling proponents’ ...

Originally, registries were conceived as a way to inform communities about convicted sexual predators living in their neighborhoods. But researchers, conducting several different studies over the ...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell last year launched the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. That office funds and evaluates efforts to especially reduce gun violence among youth — 15- through 24-year-olds ...