Report Explores How to Build More Effective Approaches to Serve Youth Involved in a Violent Crime in the Community

Smart, Safe and Fair: Strategies to Prevent Youth Violence, Heal Victims of Crime and Reduce Racial Inequality from the Justice Policy Institute and the National Center for Victims of Crime explores how to build more effective approaches to serve youth involved in a violent crime in the community, concluding that “in order to truly reduce youth violence, recidivism, mass incarceration and racial disparities, we must face the challenge of shifting youth convicted of violent offenses out of secure facilities and into the community.”