Push on for Reauthorization of Juvenile Justice Act
The Chicago Bureau: Push on for Reauthorization of Juvenile Justice Act – But Does It Go Far Enough?"
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Mayor's Commission For A Safer Chicago Releases Collaborative Anti-Violence Report
Community Process Brings City Staff, Community Leaders, Faith Leaders and Youth Together; Generates Proposals for Each to Address Violence
Preckwinkle calls for end to automatic transfers of minors to adult court
"A deeply unfair practice that disproportionately impacts youth of color."
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Preckwinkle Seeks to Curb Juvenile Offender Transfers to Adult Court
Calls for an end to the law that automatically transfers children charged with certain felony offenses from juvenile court into adult criminal court.
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Study: Jobs Prevent Violence In Chicago’s Most Impoverished Neighborhoods
The evaluation indicated that, even after the program ended, the jobs program significantly helped lower violent crime among the teens involved.
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Studies, Experts Question Effect of Placing Children on Sex Offender Registries
An estimated 200,000 registered sex offenders in the United States are children, many as young as eight years old.
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How a Chicago Summer Job Program Reduced Violent Crime
Students from some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods were given good jobs and mentors to guide them through. The effects continued well beyond the end of the program.
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OP-ED: Young People’s Brain Development Gives Us Window for Change
The field of juvenile justice has benefited from a wealth of serious research on adolescent development and brain science
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Judge Timberlake Receives Champion for Change in State Leadership Award
Judge George W. Timberlake, chair of the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission was named as the 2014 recipient of the Champion for Change in State Leadership award on Monday.
The award was announced at the annual national conference of Models for Change, a juvenile justice reform initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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MacArthur Lauds Juvenile Justice Reformers
WASHINGTON — George W. Timberlake retired from the Illinois bench in 2006 — but certainly not from juvenile justice work. Since 2004, Timberlake has devoted countless hours to five demonstration Models for Change reforms in Illinois supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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