CAIJS Shackling Reform Model Statute & Court Rule (2015)

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Model statute on shackling reform.

Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration (2014)

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Guiding Principles for Providing High-Quality Education in Juvenile Justice Secure Care Settings

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Dear Colleague Letter: Federal Pell Grant Eligibility for Students Confined or Incarcerated in Locations That Are Not Federal or State Penal Institutions

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Dear Colleague Letter: Educational Needs of Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities

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Dear Colleague Letter: Civil Rights in Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities

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Restoring Justice: A Blueprint for Ensuring Fairness, Safety, and Supportive Treatment of LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

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CAIJS Fact Sheet on Indiscriminate Juvenile Shackling

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Fact sheet on the use of shackling in youth court.

Shackling Children in Juvenile Court: The Growing Debate, Recent Trends, and the Way to Protect Everyone’s Interest

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Issue Brief: Rethinking Juvenile Detention in Ohio

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From Courts to Communities: The Right Response to Truancy, Running Away, and Other Status Offenses

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Issue Brief-Ending the Indiscriminate Shackling of Youth

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In juvenile courts throughout the nation, children arrive, face full hearings, and depart weighed down by handcuffs, leg irons, and belly chains. They appear this way not because they pose a threat to others in the courtroom or are a flight risk but because most jurisdictions indiscriminately shackle all youth in juvenile court, often without…

Dual Status Youth – Technical Assistance Workbook

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Legal Socialization of Children and Adolescents

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Juvenile Defense Law School Clinics: Building Leaders, Client Capacity, and Innovation

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Youth involved in delinquency proceedings are constitutionally entitled to have highly competent lawyers represent them at every critical stage of the case. To provide this high-level representation, defense attorneys who work in juvenile court should receive specialized training: they should be familiar with the juvenile court process and the role of the juvenile defender, the…

Issue Brief: Using Developmentally Appropriate Language to Communicate with Court-Involved Youth

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For any young person, navigating the juvenile delinquency process can be daunting. Youth are required to understand, make decisions, and act on their rights and responsibilities in court. Yet courtinvolved youth are likely to face challenges that impact their ability to understand and participate in juvenile court. The legal jargon, abstract language, and complex terminology…

Issue Brief-Specialized Training: Advancing the Ethical and Professional Representation of Youth

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There is an immediate and predominant need for specialized training in juvenile defense: training is both the foundation and the gateway to comprehensive advocacy by juvenile defenders, and it is key to ensuring that youths’ constitutionally mandated due process rights are protected. To be effective and zealous advocates, juvenile defenders must develop a set of…

Issue Brief-Juvenile Defense Standards: A Framework for the Specialized Representation of Youth

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The Supreme Court’s 1967 ruling in In re Gault established the right for all children to have counsel in delinquency proceedings, but the nature of that right has often been unclear or misunderstood, even by some juvenile defenders charged with protecting the liberty and interests of their young clients. Juvenile defense standards provide juvenile defenders…

Boulder County Policy for Limited Restraint on Children Policy

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Making the Case for Status Offense Systems Change: A Toolkit

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Performance Guidelines for Quality and Effective Juvenile Delinquency Representation (2010)

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Testimony of Tim Curry, Managing Attorney, National Juvenile Defender Center on Access to Justice in the United States

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Issue Brief-Raising the Bar with Comprehensive Juvenile Indigent Defense Contracts

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Quality legal representation informed by social science research and best practices is integral to ensuring the fair administration of justice in the juvenile delinquency system. The importance of a youth’s access to knowledgeable, well-resourced juvenile indigent defense counsel cannot be overstated. The prevalence of lowbid, flat-fee contracting schemes for court-appointed and contract juvenile indigent defense…

The Legal Defense of Juveniles: Struggling but Pushing Forward

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Resource Brief for Juvenile Defenders: What Juvenile Defenders Should Know about the DSM-5

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This resource brief is intended to support juvenile defense advocacy by providing an overview of some of the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) revisions, as well as recommendations and implications for juvenile defense practice. The DSM is a classification manual for mental health professionals with itemized criteria for diagnosing disorders. Juvenile…