National
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Building Blocks for Youth
Child Welfare League of America
National Center for Juvenile Justice
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Model OJJDP Programs for Girls Guide Listing of programs for girls that have been evaluated.
OJJDP Guiding Principles for Promising Female Programming: An Inventory of Best Practices
National Juvenile Defender Center
National Mental Health Association
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
US Dept of Justice, National Criminal Justice Reference Service: Women & Girls in the Criminal Justice System:
Overview
Resources
Florida
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
Florida Juvenile Justice Association
Florida Network of Youth and Family Services
PACE Center for Girls
Associated Marine Institute
National Data/Reports/Recommendations
NCCD’s Getting the Facts Straight (Feb. 2009)
Equity Project’s Hidden Injustice: LGBT Youth in Juvenile Courts (Fall 2009)
NCCD’s A Call for Gender Equity in the Juvenile Justice System (Nov. 2008)
Understanding the Female Offender in Future of Children (Fall 2008)
Justice by Gender (May 2001)
OJJDP Girls Study Group
Girls and Detention Reform
JDAI Pathway 13, Detention Reform and Girls (2005)
Presentation by Fran Sherman (Oct. 2009)
State Data Reports
California: No Place to Hide (1998) Full Report
Connecticut: From Trauma to Tragedy: Connecticut Girls in Adult Prison (2008)
Florida: Rallying Cry for Change (1996) Executive Summary
Rallying Cry for Change Full Report
Educate or Incarcerate Full Report
Innovative Curriculums
Girls Got It Goin' On
Recommended Academic Articles
“Girl Talk – Examining Racial and Gender Lines in Juvenile Justice” by Kim Taylor-Thompson (2006)
“Justice System Involvement Into Young Adulthood: Comparison of Adolescent Girls in the Public Mental Health System and in the General Population” by Davis et. al. (2009)
“The Criminalization Of Survival Attempts: Locking Up Female Runaways And Other Status Offenders” by Alecia Humphrey (2004)
“Trauma among Girls in the Juvenile Justice System” by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2004)
“Are Those Cookies for Me or My Baby? Understanding Detained and Incarcerated Teen Mothers and their Children” by Leslie Acoca (nd)
“When Individual Differences Demand Equal Treatment: An Equal Rights Approach To The Special Needs Of Girls In The Juvenile Justice System” by Marsha Levick and Francine Sherman (2003)
“Tenuous Borders: Girls Transferred to Adult Court” by Emily Gaarder and Joanne Belknap (2002)
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