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New Year, New Opportunities for Reform Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, December 292011

Alameda County’s Chief Probation Officer David Muhammad demonstrates innovative and determined leadership through his new approach to serving juvenile justice involved youth. He employs a youth development framework that views youthful offenders not simply as a bundle of needs and problems”, but rather as individuals with real resiliency and strengths that can be incorporated into their plan for rehabilitation and reentry. In his recent keynote address at the California Wellness…

Volume 8 — No. 2 — Fall 2011 Check out the newest issue of the Justice Policy Journal, CJCJ’s Online Academic Journal at http://​www​.cjcj​.org/​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​_​p​o​l​i​c​y​_​j​o​urnal The Fall 2011 issue has 5 articles covering a variety of topics: 1.An Examination of Media Accounts of Child Abductions in the United States by Justine Taylor, Danielle Boisvert, Barbara Sims, Carl Garver 2. Creating the Youthful Offender in Connecticut by Alan S. Bruce and Theresa A. Severance 3.Fear, Views of Human…

The Closing of the Massachusetts Reform Schools and the Legacy of Jerome Miller Youth Today, December 192011

CJCJ Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males talks about hopeful trends in California’s juvenile crime rates, and gives an optimistic outlook on the future of California’s youth and juvenile justice system. You can read his latest report on the juvenile crime decline here: http://​www​.cjcj​.org/​f​i​l​e​s​/​D​e​i​n​c​a​r​c​e​r​a​t​i​o​n​_​2011.pdf ~ Mike Males, Ph.D. CJCJ Senior Research Fellow