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United States: Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement in New The United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty permit the incarceration of a child only “as a last resort and for the minimum necessary period.” 42 In New York, over 2,000 children are placed in OCFS custody every year. 43 The proportion of girls among these children has grown from about 14 percent in the mid-nineties to over 18 percent in 2003 and 2004. 44 Of the girls in custody, about a third are confined in the high- and medium-level security facilities of Tryon and Lansing. 45 Who are these children, why are they arrested and jailed, and are they truly incarcerated ...
Like boys, girls typically enter the system with a background of familial poverty, disruption, and disadvantage. Of children taken into OCFS custody in 2004, about 63% came from New York City, especially the poorer Bronx and Kings Counties. 46 Only 23% came from two-parent households. 47 In New York State, a high percentage of single-parent families with children, 33 percent, live in poverty. 48 Poverty is a major risk factor for delinquency, and often is accompanied by other risk factors related to family disruption. 49 Incarcerated girls in particular ...
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An ADR Pioneer And Innovator Speaks Out On ADR's Progress Editor: Judge Evans, would you tell us how you became interested in ADR? Evans: It happened largely because of a conversation Bob Dunn, then President of the Houston Bar Association, and I had with then Chief Justice Joe Greenhill of the Texas Supreme Court in the late 1970's. Judge Greenhill had attended a conference of judges and lawyers in another state, which was focused on finding new ways to reduce court backlogs and to make justice more readily accessible to the people. As a result of that conversation with Chief Justice Greenhill, Bob Dunn named me the chair of a Houston ...
Girl-fights: The gloves are off NICOLE IS NOT the only girl struggling with teenage violence. In arrest reports, on the playing field, and in the classroom, incidents of young girls fighting are popping up more frequently. Those who work with children — from psychologists and judges to school administrators — say there is a growing trend of adolescent girls who exhibit violent and aggressive behavior toward classmates and adults.
Figures from the U.S. Justice Department show that 25 years ago, 1 woman for every 10 men was arrested on assault charges. Now it’s 1 woman for every 4 men. The most recent numbers from the department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention also indicate a surge in female violent behavior. In a 2006 national report, the agency said female juvenile violent crime arrests nearly doubled between 1980 and 2003, rising to 18 percent from 10 percent of all juvenile violent crime arrests. The most significant increases were for simple and aggravated assault, the report states.
Gang busters RELATED ITEMS: Two teens charged with homicide in fatal drive-by shooting Finding family on the streets: Pender teen recalls gang life Fighting back: Groups keep kids out of gangs Hiding in plain sight: Gang presence no longer obvious Bigger plans help some youngsters avoid local gangs Police keep tabs on local gang membership
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How Can You Distinguish a Budding Pedophile From a Kid With Real How Can You Distinguish a Budding Pedophile From a Kid With Real Boundary Problems? By MAGGIE JONES In the early 1980s, a therapist named Robert Longo was treating adolescent boys who had committed sex offenses. Their offenses ranged from fondling girls a few years younger than they were to outright rape of young children. As part of their treatment, the boys had to keep journals — which Longo read — in which they detailed their sexual fantasies and logged how frequently they masturbated to those fantasies. They ...
Juvenile Justice, Georgia Style Last in a series Atlanta - The phone shrilled through the two-story, suburban house at about 2 a.m., waking up parents who knew that when the phone rang at that hour, it was either a wrong number or bad news. This wasn't a wrong number. As Glenwood Ross, an economist and college professor, groggily held the receiver to his ear, a detective announced down the line that his 15-year-old son was under arrest for an armed robbery committed earlier that night. "They said, 'We've got your boy here.' I said, 'No you don't, he's in bed!' ...
Savannah, Ga. - Most mothers convinced of a son's innocence would rejoice if 20 years were sliced off his prison sentence. Not Ilona Griffin. There's not much to celebrate when life plus 65 years becomes life plus 45 years. "The only luck I've had so far is that he's kept his sanity," she says of her son, Melvin, now 26, who was a 16-year-old high school student when he was arrested in July 1992. Melvin was accused of taking part in the robbery and shooting death of a man on a Savannah street. This was two years before passage of Senate Bill ...