Delays in Youth Justice.

摘要

This bulletin reviews a research effort in juvenile case processing that looked at two information sources, a nationwide sample of counties and an indepth investigation of three Midwestern courts: The researchers examined case-level data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, comparing trends in caseloads and case-processing times from two time periods: a) 1985-1994 (examined in an earlier study) and b) 1995-2004. The comparison shows that caseloads and case-processing times in juvenile courts increased during the first 10-year period but decreased during the second; and The researchers studied the case management strategies employed by three well-respected Midwestern courts of varying sizes: Hamilton County (Cincinnati, Ohio), Kent County (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and Peoria County (Peoria, Ill.). The efforts to control youth justice delays in these three counties, as in all jurisdictions, focus on managerial, legal and professional issues. All three sites used different tactics, tailored to the size of their jurisdictions and their available financial, human, and computing resources, and all three had success.