Sentences with phrase «youth incarceration»
"Youth incarceration" refers to the practice of sending young individuals to jail or prison because they have committed a crime or broken the law. It means that young people, usually teenagers, are being held in detention centers or correctional facilities as a punishment for their actions. Full definition
With youth incarceration, there are different views about what has happened and what needs to happen in the future.
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The letter acknowledged the inordinate numbers of incarcerated black, Latino and Native American youth, and the economic and social impacts of youth incarceration on society.
Its Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative and work to reduce youth incarceration focus on creating systems that use proven family - oriented interventions and lock up fewer kids.
The result: Connecticut, once a national leader in youth incarceration, has seen the number of jailed children drop dramatically.
We join with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in raising awareness of the declining youth incarceration rate in the United States.
Youth incarceration needs to be framed as a social issue that requires involvement from parents and the state for a successful solution.
The report found that Indigenous youth incarceration is at its highest level in 20 years and that Indigenous kids are 26 times more likely to go to jail than non-Indigenous kids.
There is a vast wealth of wisdom and knowledge about the solutions to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth incarceration, the best of it coming from Indigenous peoples and organisations.
«Our struggle goes way back,» said Belafonte, who, together with her father, founded The Gathering for Justice, a nonprofit organization addressing issues of youth incarceration and criminalization of poverty.
Mariame Kaba, the founding director of Project NIA, a local group that focuses on reducing youth incarceration, that worked with a coalition of community and student groups to change the district's discipline code, praised CPS for «being transparent around school discipline data.»
Cited in Father Absence and Youth Incarceration.
«Father Absence and Youth Incarceration.»
Cynthia Harper and Sara S. McLanahan, «Father Absence and Youth Incarceration,» findings presented at the 1998 meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.
C.C. Harper and S.S. McLanahan, «Father Absence and Youth Incarceration», Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Assoc., San Francisco, CA, 1998
Men and women in white collars started to trickle in, saying hello to their fellow activists who showed up to speak out against the youth incarceration.
Both suicide and youth incarceration are the tips of icebergs of larger suffering and issues and the demand for greater changes to be made.
Father Absence and Youth Incarceration: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Source: California University, San Francisco.
Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara S. McLanahan of Princeton University cited in «Father Absence and Youth Incarceration.»