NEW YORK CITY — Ninety-nine percent. The number sent an audible gasp throughout the City Council chamber. Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea had just read off the percentage of people of color on the ...

[This story is part of a series focusing on false confessions and filming interrogations. Read other stories in the series here.] NEW YORK--A 14-year-old Raymond Santana sat slumped in a chair, his ...

Visit Bokeh Focus: Through the Eyes of Youth to explore our growing Instagram collections of photo essays, stories and videos by or about youth. Curated by Center for Sustainable Journalism, the ...

Few seem to be disputing the brain science that suggests that the impulsivity of adolescence lingers well into technical adulthood. Even so, opposing camps, in both Massachusetts and California, are ...

It’s about time someone wrote a book that informs readers about the unadulterated truth of how we treat kids in America. It isn’t flattering, and worse, the future doesn’t look promising despite ...

Negotiating dispositions have no place in our juvenile courtrooms. Let’s examine this assertion using Johnny as a case study. He is 15 years old and before the juvenile court for battery on a teacher, ...

[8] Crifasi, C. K., Doucette, M. L., McGinty, E. E., Webster, D. W., & Barry, C. L. (2018). Storage practices of US gun owners in 2016. AJPH, 108(4). [11] Fowler, K ...

Sex offender registration policies were initially developed for adults with sexual offenses, but have recently been extended to include youth with sexual offenses as well. At first glance, sex ...