News Brief: Governor decides—in juvenile justice, city kids belong near home BY ABIGAIL KRAMER January 17, 2012 If Governor Cuomo gets his way, New York City will cut the number of children it sends to state-run juvenile justice facilities by more than two-thirds over the next two years, receiving more than $35 million per year … Continue reading
Report Pushes Advocates to Seek Structural, Not Just Financial, Changes to Juvenile Justice Systems September 07, 2011 by John Kelly Excerpt The time is ripe for some states to reduce their reliance on youth incarceration, according to a report issued today by a veteran juvenile justice researcher, but that change may not lead to long-term … Continue reading
Youth violence – Are “get tough” policies the best approach? by Thomas Billitteri, Staff Writer Jeffrey Butts, a criminologist who this spring will become executive director of the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, points out that while aggregate youth crime has not been going up nationally, … Continue reading
Juvenile justice – Are sentencing policies too harsh? by Peter Katel A counterweight, points out Butts of the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall Center for Children, is the vastly expanded state of knowledge about juveniles and effective programs. … “It has been helpful to show decision makers that there is verifiable, quantitative evidence that young … Continue reading
Evaluation Spotlight The Picture of Success Illustrations show strength of youth-serving networks. By Jen Russell March 2008 How do you translate a complex statistical and mathematical evaluation strategy into something people can understand? Draw a picture. That’s how co-evaluators Jeffrey Butts of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and Jennifer … Continue reading
