Resources Curated by the Maine Juvenile Justice System Assessment & Reinvestment Task Force

Resources

Compilation of Maine & national reports and resources (scroll down for list of national reports)

Maine Reports & Resources

Juvenile Justice & Older Youth

Regional Care Teams First Year Review: Cross Systems Collaboration to Improve Positive Youth Outcomes. Mara Sanchez, Erica King, Jill Ward and Jillian Foley, University of Southern Maine, Cutler Institute and Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law (December 2021).

Transitioning From Youth to Adulthood: Mapping the Impact of Systems and Places on Youth Pathways. Danielle Layton, Erica King, Jillian Foley, and Sophia McMullan, University of Southern Maine, Cutler Institute (March 2021).

Maine Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services: 2021-2022 Action Plan. (March, 2021).

Maine Poll Results on Youth Justice Reform. Poll commissioned by Maine Youth Justice and Youth First and conducted by GBAO Strategies (February 2021).

Maine Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services: Maine Juvenile Justice System Assessment Progress Report. (January, 2021).

Maine Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services: Assessment Recommendations Update and Office of Child and Family Services: Update on Assessment Recommendations. Reports presented at the October JJAG meeting (October 16, 2020).

Data Snapshot of Youth Incarceration in Maine. Urban Institute (April 2020).

Maine Juvenile Justice System Assessment Final Report and Executive Summary. Center for Children's Law and Policy (February 2020).

Juvenile Justice Overview. Maine Department of Corrections (December 2019).

Juvenile Justice - Past, Present & Future Greater Good Podcast (Episode 14, Part 2). University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center (December 2019).

Juvenile Justice - Past, Present & Future Greater Good Podcast (Episode 13, Part 1). University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center (November 2019).

A New Vision for Youth Justice in Maine. Maine Youth Justice (October 2019).

Place Matters: From Pipelines to Place-Based Strategies for Maine's Older Youth. Mara Sanchez, Erica King, & Robyn Dumont, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service (October 2019).

Place Matters: Aligning Investments in a Community-Based Continuum of Care for Maine Youth Transitioning to Adulthood. Mara Sanchez, Erica King, and Jill Ward, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service and the Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law (March 2019).

Positive Youth Outcomes in Maine's Juvenile Justice System. Danielle Layton and George Shaler, Maine Statistical Analysis Center, University of Southern Maine (January 2019).

From Adolescence to Adulthood: A Blueprint for Helping Maine’s Youth Succeed. Jennifer Miller, ChildFocus, John T. Gorman Foundation (May 2018).

Youth Justice in Maine: Imagine a New Future Summit, Summary & Recommendations. Mara Sanchez, Erica King, and Jill Ward, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service and the Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law (January 2018).

Recidivism: Diversion to Discharge in Maine’s Juvenile Justice System. Robin Dumont and Erica King, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service (2017).

Assessing the Use of Law Enforcement by Youth Residential Service Providers. Disability Rights Maine (August 2017).

Unsealed Fate: The Unintended Consequences of Inadequate Safeguarding of Juvenile Records in Maine. Susy Hawes, Erica King, Mara Sanchez and George Shaler, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service (March 2017)

An Initiative to Develop a Sustainable Restorative Juvenile Justice System. Gale Burford, Sarah Gallagher, Karen Gennette, John Gorczyk, George Shaler, Johannes Wheeldon (2016). Final Report To Maine’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group

Disproportionate Contact: Youth of Color in Maine’s Juvenile Justice System. Robyn Dumont, Erica King, and George Shaler, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service (2015).

The Maine Juvenile Justice Task Force: An Integrated Approach to Transforming Maine’s Juvenile Justice System. University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service (2010).

Long Creek Youth Development Center

Report on Causes of Recent Disturbances at Long Creek Youth Development Center. Center for Children’s Law & Policy (November 2021).

Long Creek Youth Development Center, Conditions Assessment Narrative Report. Center for Children’s Law & Policy (September 2017).

Profile of Youth Committed at Long Creek Youth Development Center as of July 1, 2016. Maine Department of Corrections (January 2017).

Long Creek Youth Development Center Board of Visitors 2017/2018 Report (2018).

Long Creek Youth Development Center Board of Visitors Annual Report (2016).

Children’s Behavioral Health

Children’s Behavioral Health Services Assessment Final Report.Maine DHHS, Office of Child and Family Services (December 2018).

Children’s Behavioral Health Services Internal Operations Report.Maine DHHS, Office of Child and Family Services (December 2018).

Education

School-Based Policing in Maine: A Study of School Resource Officers in Maine Public Schools. Danielle Layton & George Shaler, University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service (October 2019).

Restraint and Seclusion in Maine Schools: Reviewing the First Six Years of Data Required by MDOE Rule Chapter 33. Disability Rights Maine (May 2019).

National Reports & Resources

OJJDP: Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement: Detailed Offense Profiles

State Juvenile Justice Reforms Can Boost Opportunity, Particularly for Communities of Color. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (July 2021).

Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2020. National Center for Education Statistics, American Institutes for Research, Bureau of Justice Statistics (July 2021).

A Joint Statement on the Importance of Specialization of Judges, Prosecutors, and Defenders in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings. Issued jointly by National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), and Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP). (April 2021).

Seeing What’s Underneath: A Resource for Understanding Behavior & Using Language in Juvenile Court. Developed and released by National Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC), National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), and Georgetown Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic & Initiative. (April 2021).

Transforming Juvenile Probation: Restructuring Probation Terms to Promote Success. Samantha Harvell, Leah Sakala and Andreea Matei, Urban Institute. (April 2021).

Futures in the Balance: Keeping Youth Out of Juvenile Court. National Juvenile Defender Center and the AASA, The School Superintendents Association (April 2021).

Forging Partnerships with Law Enforcement: A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform. Strategies for Youth (April 2021).

Learned Helplessness, Criminalization, and Victimization in Vulnerable Youth. Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Texas Tech University; Evangeline Lopoo, Justice Lab, Columbia University; and Anamika Dwivedi, Justice Lab, Columbia University, The Square One Project (December 2020).

50-state assessment of the legislative landscape of Exclusionary School Discipline (ESD) and school-based restorative justice (RJ). Initiative on Gender, Justice & Opportunity, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Georgetown Law. (November 2020).

Credit Overdue: How States can Mitigate Academic Credit Transfer Problems for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. Juvenile Law Center (October 2020).

The Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System. UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative and Alianza for Youth Justice (August 2020).

Closing Youth Prisons: Lessons Learned from Agency Administrators. Samantha Harvell, Chloe Warnberg, Andreea Matei, and Eli Mensing, Urban Institute. (March 2020).

How State Reform Efforts Are Transforming Juvenile Justice. Dana Shoenberg, The PEW Charitable Trusts (November 2019).

Probation Referral: A Model for Diversion of Children and Youth with Disabilities from the Juvenile Justice System. National Disability Rights Network (October 2019).

A Roadmap to the Ideal Juvenile Justice System. Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University (July 2019).

Sticker Shock: The Cost of Youth Incarceration. Justice Policy Institute (July 2019).

Statement on Ending Youth Prisons. Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice (April 2019).

Promoting a New Direction for Youth Justice: Strategies to Fund a Community-Based Continuum of Care and Opportunity. Samantha Harvell, Chloe Warnberg, Leah Sakala, and Constance Hull, Urban Institute (March 2019).

Moving Beyond Youth Prisons: Lessons from New York City’s Implementation of Close to Home, Marsha Weissman, Vidhya Ananthakrishnan, & Vincent Schiraldi, Columbia Justice Lab (February 2019).

Operation Education: An Action Kit to Achieve Positive Educational Outcomes for Youth in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems. Juveniles for Justice, Youth Fostering Change and the Juvenile Law Center (2019).

Smart, Safe, and Fair: Strategies to Prevent Youth Violence, Heal Victims of Crime, and Reduce Racial Inequality. Justice Policy Institute and The National Center for Victims of Crime (September 2018).

Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators Toolkit: Facility Closure and Strategic Downsizing of Juvenile Justice Systems (July 2018).

Intersection between Mental Health and the Juvenile Justice System. Literature Review, A Product of the Model Programs Guide, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice (July 2017).

How Does Incarcerating Young People Affect Their Adult Health Outcomes? Elizabeth Barnert, Rebecca Dudovitz, et al. PEDIATRICS, Volume 139, No. 2 (February 2017).

The Future of Youth Justice: A Community-based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model. Patrick McCarthy, Vincent Schiraldi, and Miriam Shark, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (2016).

Beyond Bars: Keeping Young People Safe at Home and Out of Youth Prisons. National Collaboration for Youth (December 14, 2016).

Re-Examining Juvenile Incarceration: High Cost, Poor Outcomes Spark Shift to Alternatives. The Pew Charitable Trusts (April 2015).

Maltreatment of Youth in U.S. Juvenile Correctional Facilities (AECF, 2015): An Update to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2011 Report, No Place for Kids. Richard A. Mendel (2015).

Safely Home: Reducing youth incarceration and achieving positive outcomes for high and complex need youth though effective community-based programs. Shaena M. Fazal, Esq., Youth Advocate Program, Inc. (June 2014).

Stakeholders’ Views on the Movement to Reduce Youth Incarceration. National Council on Crime & Delinquency (2014).

FAMILY Comes First: A Workbook to Transform the Justice System by Partnering with Families. Campaign for Youth Justice (2013).

Pioneers of Youth Justice Reform: Achieving System Change Using Resolution, Reinvestment, and Realignment Strategies. Douglas Evans, Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (July 2012).

Resolution, Reinvestment and Realignment: Three Strategies for Changing Juvenile Justice. Jeffrey Butts and Douglas Evans, Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (September 2011).

Racial Disparities

Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist. The Sentencing Project (February 2021)

The Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System. UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative and Alianza for Youth Justice (August 2020).

Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities. United States Commission on Civil Rights (July 2019).

Stemming the Rising Tide: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Youth Incarceration and Strategies for Change. W. Haywood Burns Institute (2016).

LGBTQI Youth

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in the Juvenile Justice System. Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI), written by Shannon Wilber, National Center for Lesbian Rights (2015).

Unjust: How the Broken Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth. Movement Advancement Project and Center for American Progress (August 2016).

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