"It can cost hundreds of dollars a day, and hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, when systems fail to reduce the chances that a young...

"Longer stays in juvenile institutions do not reduce recidivism, and some youth who had the lowest offending levels reported committing...

The overall numbers of confinement appear to be diminishing, however "the disparities between rates of confinement are growing." (p.7)...

"Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, New York and Texas have all used fiscal incentives...to support less costly...options to...

John Jay College of Criminal Justice found that more than 8 of 10 youth in alternative-to-incarceration programs remained arrest free,...

"Evidence-Based practices alone aren't enough to reform the Juvenile Justice System...a variety of community-based approaches to address...

Even though Evidence-Based programming has been proven far more cost-effective than incarceration, only around five-percent (5%) of...

[There are] numerous intervention and prevention strategies that reduce delinquent behavior, foster positive youth development skills,...

According to the National Research Council of the National Academies, "Options that keep youth at home and engaged in school and family...

The National Research Council of the National Academies has called on policymakers to adopt a developmental approach [to Juvenile...