National Conference on Juvenile Justice Records: Appropriate Criminal and Noncriminal Justice Uses. Proceddings of a BJS/SEARCH Conference.

摘要

While opening access to the juvenile record is a policy based on legitimate public safety concerns, it threatens to reverse nearly 100 years of juvenile justice policy that stresses rehabilitation, treatment, and individual privacy. How to balance the use of juvenile justice records in today's climate presents unique challenges to juvenile justice administrators, public policymakers, and others in the criminal justice arena involved in aspects of collecting, maintaining, using, or disseminating juvenile justice record information. The conference focused on the appropriate uses of juvenile justice records in juvenile and adult/criminal court and other criminal justice proceedings, as well as for noncriminal justice purposes, such as background employment checks and licensing.