Found 21 matches.
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Profile of Federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Funding: Wisconsin
Tags: Wisconsin | Fiscal Issues and Funding | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
The Federal distribution of funds has decreased substantially over the past decade and is part of an ongoing problem across the country. Nationwide, during the 16 years that the JJDPA went unauthorized, the federal investment in the prevention and reduction of juvenile delinquency decreased by nearly 48 percent. In Wisconsin, between FY10 and FY18 alone, the state experienced a 78% reduction in its formula and block grant allocations. *** Published by the Campaign of the National Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Coalition - Act 4 Juvenile Justice. www.act4jj.org
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The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update on Youth Incarceration in the United States
Tags: California | Connecticut | Illinois | Missouri | Mississippi | Nebraska | New York | Ohio | South Dakota | Texas | Washington | Wisconsin | Wyoming | National | Deinstitutionalization | NJJN Publications
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The Comeback States: Reducing Juvenile Incarceration in the United States - NJJN, TPPF
Tags: California | Connecticut | Illinois | Mississippi | New York | Ohio | Texas | Washington | Wisconsin | National | Deinstitutionalization | NJJN Publications
Nine "comeback states" are featured for their dramatic reversal of youth incarceration rates in the past decade and for adopting policies that will promote further reductions.
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The State of Juvenile Justice: What Do We Really Know
Tags: Wisconsin | General System Reform | Reports
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Police-School Resource Program Presentation, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, July 25, 2011
Tags: Wisconsin | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Presentations
Working with the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change initiative, Outagamie County officials introduced reforms aimed at reducing disorderly conduct arrests in the county’s public schools. The Police-School Resource Program aims to prevent youth from entering the juvenile justice system by linking them with services and supports that address disruptive behavior.
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State v. Ninham, Oral Argument, Wisconsin Supreme Court
Tags: Wisconsin | Life Without Parole and Parole Issues | Court Decisions and Related Documents
Video of oral arguments in a case held in abeyance pending the outcome of Graham v. Florida. Case examines whether the life sentence handed down to a boy convicted of first-degree intentional homicide that was committed when he was 14 years old constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative argues the unconstitutionality of a life without parole sentence for someone so young.
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Strengthening Interagency Partnerships for Safe Schools: A Training Initiative to Reduce Suspensions, Expulsions, and Arrests Through Positive Youth Development Approaches, Fox Valley Technical College, Criminal Justice Center for Innovation, Wisconsin Sc
Tags: Wisconsin | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Administrative/Regulatory Policies
Wisconsin’s Rock, Kenosha, and Outagamie Counties worked with Fox Valley Technical College to create a curriculum for School Resource Officers (SROs). The curriculum—developed through the counties’ work with the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change initiative—aims to train SROs in alternatives to school-based arrest, and includes information on adolescent brain development, de-escalation techniques, over-criminalization of common youth behavior, the effects of an arrest in school, Motivational Interviewing, and other relevant topics.
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Wisconsin Improves Data Sharing in Order to Increase Effective Detention Screening, S.B. 375
Tags: Wisconsin | Risk Assessment and Screening | Legislation
A Wisconsin law allows detention intake workers access to prior adjudication histories in order to make more appropriate detention decisions.
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The Adam Walsh Act and Wisconsin: One-Size-Fits-All Registration Does Not Fit Everyone, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Sex Offender Registries | Reports
Brief about the potential impact of the Adam Walsh Act in Wisconsin.
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Returning 17-Year-Olds to the Juvenile Justice System: A Smart Choice for Our Communities and Our Youth, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Report detailing a measure to return 17-year-olds to the original jurisdiction of the juvenile court
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Statement Related to Wisconsin's Age of Adult Criminal Responsibility, Governor's Juvenile Justice Commission
Tags: Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Wisconsin Governor's Juvenile Justice Commission unanimously endorsed returning 17-year-olds to the juvenile justice system. In its statement, the Commission cites research on brain development, evidence-based practices, and lower recidivism rates for 17-year-olds kept in the juvenile justice system.
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Risking Their Futures: Why Trying Nonviolent 17-Year-Olds as Adults Is Bad Policy for Wisconsin, Wendy Henderson, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Report analyzing the results of a Wisconsin Council on Children and Families study of 1,000 17-year-old offenders in the adult criminal justice system in the state. The results strongly suggest a policy change.
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Governor's Commission Recommends Returning 17-Year-Olds to Juvenile Jurisdiction, Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System
Tags: Wisconsin | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
The Commission links the overrepresentation of minority youth to current juvenile justice policies and recommends returning 17-year-olds to the original jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
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Legislative Audit Report Finds Higher Recidivism Rates for 17-Year-Olds in Adult System, Wisconsin, Legislative Audit Bureau Report
Tags: Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Report finding that 17-year-olds in the adult system have higher recidivism rates than both youth in the juvenile system and adults in the prison system.
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Testimony to Governor's Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities, Wendy Henderson, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Testimony
Testimony discussing racial and ethnic disparities in the context of trying youth as adults. Henderson recommends that the legislature return 17-year-olds to the juvenile justice system and require data collection by race and age at all points in the justice system.
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Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice: Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Reports
Paper based on interview with Racine County Human Services revealing the efforts in Wisconsin to reduce DMC (only 21% of youth in Wisconsin are minorities, but they represent 63.5% of youth in juvenile justice facilities).
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Rethinking the Juvenile in Juvenile Justice, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Brain and Adolescent Development | Reports
Report analyzing the most recent findings on adolescent brain development, along with the practical implications for the justice system. The report includes policy recommendations to address community safety while also taking into account the developmentally appropriate treatment of adolescents in legal trouble.
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Testimony in Support of Raising Age of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction to 18, Presented to the Wisconsin Legislature by Elizabeth Clarke, Illinois Juvenile Justice Initiative
Tags: Illinois | Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Testimony
Testimony supporting Wisconsin's efforts to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction, highlighting research, U.S. Supreme Court findings in Roper v. Simmons, national and international consensus, and the national movement to raise the age in states where the age of juvenile jurisdiction is still below 18.
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Testimony Against Wisconsin A.B. 99, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Confidentiality | Sex Offender Registries | Reports
Testimony of Wendy Paget, calling for judicial review of any dissemination of juvenile records for sex offender registries.
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Action Alert on Wisconsin A.B. 99, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Tags: Wisconsin | Confidentiality | Sex Offender Registries | Reports
Action alert against a bill that would allow a sheriff or police to release information from the juvenile sex offender registry if they believe it is in the best interest of the public to receive this information. Alert states that juvenile records should remain sealed, with only judges able to determine the scope of dissemination of juvenile sex offender registry information.
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Wisconsin's Legislature's Fiscal Estimate of Changing Adult Jurisdiction from 16 to 18, Wisconsin Department of Administration
Tags: Wisconsin | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Wisconsin legislature's fiscal estimate of raising the age of adult jurisdiction to 18 finds that there will be no state fiscal effect.