The current study provides a systematic review of 107 studies. Studies were drawn from
academic journals, reports, and edited books from January 2001 to December 2014. The …

Research Summary We conducted a systematic review of recidivism outcomes for juveniles
transferred to adult court, incorporating meta‐analytic techniques. Nine studies—based on …

Responses to juvenile offending have swung between rehabilitative and punishment
approaches since the 1960s. A shift back toward rehabilitation has been influenced by …

Objectives: Drawing on focal concerns theory, as well as scholarship on the juvenile court's
mandate to consider youth culpability and amenability to treatment, we develop hypotheses …

A longstanding divide between research and policy presents continuing problems for efforts
to advance science and to improve public safety. The situation leads to poorly designed and …

Black and male youths are overrepresented at every stage of juvenile justice processing.
The current study investigated racial, gender, and age disparities in the probability of a …

Objectives: This study assessed to what extent differences in the subjectively experienced
severity of imprisonment (SESI) affect postrelease offending behavior. Methods: Interview …

Runaway and Homeless Youth: New Research and Clinical Perspectives analyzes up-to-
date research about runaway and homeless youth based on results from the national …

Research suggests that juvenile court dispositions are influenced by legal factors, such as
offense severity and prior record, as well as extralegal factors, such as race/ethnicity, sex …

This Article identifies and analyzes features of the juvenile delinquency court that harm the
people on whom children most heavily depend: their parents. By negatively affecting a …