From the monthly archives: August 2010
Interstate Commission for Juveniles | ICJ. The Interstate Commission for Juveniles has issued a request for public comment on proposed rules relevant to the implementation of the Interstate Compact on Juveniles, including rules addressing juvenile sex offenders being sent across state lines and probable cause hearings in receiving states for juveniles who are subject to retaking for [...]
Continue Reading →Court tackles life imprisonment for juvenile offenders (May 17, 2010) | On the Docket. The Supreme Court ruled today on two cases from Florida dealing with minors sentenced to life in prison for committing crimes other than murder. In Graham v. Florida, a judge sentenced then-17-year-old Terrance Graham to life without parole in 2004 after [...]
Continue Reading →Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2009 Getting the Juvenile-Justice System to Grow Up By Ken Stier If it’s not the biggest scandal in American legal history, many are calling it at least the darkest day for the country’s troubled juvenile-justice system. For more than four years earlier this decade, two senior county juvenile-court judges in northeastern Pennsylvania took [...]
Continue Reading →Judith Christensen, lecturer in psychology, shares some of her experiences as clinical and educational director of the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center with students in her research methods cours
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