Center on Youth Justice Releases Juvenile Justice Indicators Follow-up

A new report about how New York’s juvenile justice system has been operating for the past three years is now available from Vera’s Center on Youth Justice (CYJ). Widening the Lens 2008 [pdf] tracks four key areas of the system—court referrals, detention, court processing, and disposition—to offer insight into how county and state agencies are serving youth. The goal is to help officials monitor the youth justice system, alert managers to demographic shifts or policy changes, and allow stakeholders to identify promising trends and opportunities for reform.
Widening the Lens 2008 is a follow-up to the state’s first-ever set of juvenile justice indicators [pdf], which CYJ and the New York State Task Force on Juvenile Justice Indicators published in 2007.

The Vera Institute of Justice is an independent, nonprofit organization that combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great Blog. I am really interested in criminal justice and I work with young offenders.

I was wondering if you could help me find some info.

I am trying to articulate the cost-range that a recidivist youth would have to the system in his lifetime, in terms of incarceration, probation, policing, rehabilitation, costs to society, etc, assuming this kid was in-and-out of prison between his youth and his adult life. much of his life.

Do you have any thoughts on where I might source such stats? Has The Centre of Criminology have any stats in that regard?

thanks
Terance Brouse