New Directors Orientation

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MacArthur Foundation Juvenile Justice Grantmaking

• Background and History
• The MacArthur Research Network on
• Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice
• Models for Change Systems Reform in Juvenile
  Justice

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MacArthur Foundation Research Network on
Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice

• Long-Term Goals
• To improve decision-making in the juvenile and
  criminal justice systems with better and more
  complete knowledge about adolescent development
• To improve court and corrections practices
  affecting youthful offenders
• To inform policy debates about the appropriate
  treatment of juvenile offenders and the future of
  juvenile justice
• To inform the public discussion about juvenile
  crime

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Focal Issues

• Adjudicative competence of adolescents in the
  Juvenile and Criminal Justice systems
• Actual and perceived criminal culpability of
  youth
• Risk, amenability, and desistance among serious
  juvenile offenders

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• The goal is to create
• a new wave of juvenile justice reform
• by producing system-wide change
• in multiple states
• that others will learn from
• and emulate.

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National Resource Bank

• Center for Childrens Law and Policy
• Child Welfare League of America
• Coalition for Juvenile Justice
• Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators
• Justice Policy Institute
• Juvenile Law Center
• National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile
  Justice
• National Council of La Raza
• National Juvenile Defender Center
• National Mental Health Association
• National Youth Screening Assistance Project

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Pennsylvania 2004

• Lead entity
• Juvenile Law Center
• Targeted areas of improvement (TAI)
• Mental health-juvenile justice coordination
• Aftercare
• Disproportionate minority contact (DMC)
• Strengths, assets, and risks

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Pennsylvania Pilot Counties and Targeted Areas of
Improvement
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ILLINOIS 2005

• Lead entity
• Loyola University Chicago and coordinating
  council
• Targeted areas of improvement (TAI)
• Community-based alternative sanctions and
  services
• Juvenile court jurisdiction
• Disproportionate minority contact (DMC)
• Strengths, assets, and risks

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DuPage County Juvenile Justice Council
Ogle County Probation Department
Youth Outreach Services/Cook County Juvenile
Detention Alternative Initiative
The Childrens Home Association of Illinois
The 2nd Judicial Circuit Crawford, Edwards,
Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson,
Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, Wayne, and White
counties
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LOUISIANA 2006

• Lead entity
• Louisiana Board of Regents
• Targeted areas of improvement (TAI)
• Alternatives to formal processing and secure
  confinement
• Evidence-based practice
• Disproportionate minority contact (DMC)
• Strengths, assets, and risks

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WASHINGTON 2006

• Lead entity Center for Children and Youth
  Justice
• Possible targeted areas of improvement (TAI)
• Mental health
• Systems integration
• Indigent defense bar
• Diversion
• Status offenders
• Disproportionate minority contact (DMC)
• Strengths, assets, and risks

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Five Vital Signs

• 1. Fairness measured by reduced racial
  disparities and access to qualified counsel
• 2. Recognition of Juvenile-Adult Differences
  measured by reduced transfer to adult criminal
  court
• 3. Successful Engagement measured by
  increased participation in education,
  rehabilitation, and treatment services
• 4. Community Safety measured by lower
  recidivism rates
• 5. Diversion measured by reduced reliance
  on incarceration as well as increased use of
  community-based alternative sanctions

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Advancing the Models

• Building an evidence base
• Select bellwether states
• Develop and test tools to support reform
• Document, assess and understand the process of
  change
• Create new knowledge
• Creating interest and demand
• Understand how innovation travels through
  information and technical assistance
• Establish issue networks on DMC and mental health

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