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A 21 st Century Developmentally Appropriate Juvenile Probation Approach
Author(s) -
Schwartz Robert G.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/jfcj.12108
Subject(s) - juvenile , juvenile delinquency , economic justice , juvenile court , criminology , psychology , political science , law , biology , genetics
Principles of adolescent development have accelerated positive changes to the juvenile justice system. These changes have been most pronounced in reducing reliance on incarceration and in approaches to sentencing of youth tried as adults. While juvenile probation has made some developmentally friendly adjustments, it remains an area that is fertile for reform. Many of the principles and goals in this paper have been endorsed by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges ( NCJFCJ ), which “supports and is committed to juvenile probation systems that conform to the latest knowledge of adolescent development and adolescent brain science,” and which “recommends that courts cease imposing ‘conditions of probation’ and instead support probation departments’ developing, with families and youth, individualized case plans that set expectations and goals.”[Note 2. National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (2017) ...] NCJFCJ 's July, 2017 resolution in support of developmentally appropriate juvenile probation services built on earlier NCJFCJ policies. From the time NCJFCJ adopted Juvenile Delinquency Guidelines in 2005, those policies have grown increasingly robust.[Note 3. See, for example, NCJFCJ's 2016 resolution Regarding Judicial Training ...]