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Reading Recommendations

A Massachusetts high school that educates teenagers addicted to heroin, alcohol, and prescription drugs has spent the past year teaching them how to stay alive.

Aug 4

Aug 4 Norway Proves That Treating Prison Inmates As Human Beings Actually Works

Reading Recommendations

“Treat people like dirt, and they will be dirt. Treat them like human beings, and they will act like human beings.”

Aug 3

Aug 3 Juvenile Justice System Should Morph Into Surrogate Grandparent, Not Parent

Reading Recommendations

The creation of the juvenile court was a spectacular triumph of the progressive movement in the late 19th century. Advocating for a separate legal process was a bold statement about the developmental differences between adult and adolescents and, consequently, the mitigated culpability of youth who commit crimes...

Juvenile courts thus began under the legal precedent of parens patriae (parent of the nation); the same precedent that allows the state to remove abused and neglected children from their homes.

Aug 3

Aug 3 Juvenile Justice System Abuse Reports Spark Investigation in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are investigating the Juvenile Justice system after allegations of abuse at county juvenile halls.

Aug 2

Aug 2 'Slender Man' Trial: Why Trying These Girls as Adults Is Absurd

In two decisions released Wednesday, a Wisconsin appeals court upheld a decision to try the girls in the "Slender Man" case as adults. The two girls admitted as 12-year-olds in 2014 to having stabbed their friend in order to please "Slender Man," an Internet horror meme. (The victim luckily crawled to safety and survived.) The decision to try two children as adults – two children immature and mentally ill enough to believe in the literal existence of a fictional character – may seem inappropriate, to put it mildly. But legally it's a viable one – thanks to a terrible Wisconsin law with analogues in many other states.

Jul 29

Jul 29 13th Annual Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference - 9/22/16 & 9/23/16

Lisa Greco

The International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference welcomes attendees from around the world! To date the International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference has had presenters from 15 countries around the world.

Jul 28

Jul 28 OJJDP/CRPD 40 Hour Detention Careworkers Curriculum Training to be held 10/3/16 - 10/7/16

A Technical Assistance Grant has been awarded for the Training of Trainers in the OJJDP/CRPD 40 Hour Detention Careworkers Curriculum, 3rd Edition.

Now in its 3rd revision, the OJJDP/CRPD 40 Hour Detention Careworkers Curriculum has additional topics, up dated course outlines, handouts and on-line support. Those who attend this Training of Trainers in the OJJDP/CRPD 40 Hour Detention Careworkers Curriculum, 3rd Edition will have access to all the new material and formal trainingin how to instruct from the new curriculum.

Jul 26

Jul 26 Viewing Recommendation: Addiction

Viewing Recommendations, Reading Recommendations

What causes addiction? Easy, right? Drugs cause addiction. But maybe it is not that simple.

This video is adapted from Johann Hari's New York Times best-selling book 'Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.' For more information, and to take a quiz to see what you know about addiction, go to www.chasingthescream.com

Jul 26

Jul 26 Australia: Children stripped, assaulted and tear-gassed at detention center

Kevin Barnwell

(CNN)Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for a national investigation into allegations of abuse and torture at a juvenile detention center.

The allegations, which appeared on Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "Four Corners" investigative program, showed children as young as 10 being stripped naked, assaulted, tear-gassed and kept in solitary confinement.

Jul 25

Jul 25 The MJDA Online Blog is now live!

The MJDA Connect Blog is now live and open for viewing, commenting, and submissions.

Jul 25

Jul 25 Listening Recommendation - Revisionist History: Carlos Doesn't Remember

Listening Recommendations

“Carlos Doesn’t Remember” is the first in a three-part Revisionist History miniseries taking a critical look at the idea of capitalization—the measure of how well America is making use of its human potential.

Jul 25

Jul 25 Implicit Bias: More Than Just a Few Bad Apples

Youth of color experience the worst outcomes in every youth-serving system, including law enforcement, child welfare and education, the data show conclusively. This is due in part to unconscious or implicit biases that affect our understanding of individuals, based on their race and ethnicity, and cause us to alter our decision-making accordingly.

Jul 25

Jul 25 Higgins Lake Registration Deadline is Wednesday, July 27th!