The Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) released its National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses which offer concrete policy and practice recommendations for preventing or limiting court involvement of youth charged with non-delinquent offenses. In advance of this release, Marie Williams, from CJJ, developed a two-page summary of the important issues for juvenile defense counsel to consider when representing status offenders – which was produced for and distributed at the 17^th Annual Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit last month.

The brief details on ways in which you can use and support CJJ’s Status Offense Standards, including CJJ’s Safety Opportunity & Success (SOS) Project and CJJ’s National Standards.

For a full list of organizations that have endorsed, the complete text of the National Standards, information about requesting a training, and additional content on some of the issues covered by the National Standards, please visit the  Safety, Opportunity & Success project on CJJ’s website.  

Posted by MCCD on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 1:37PM
Categories: Juvenile Competency, Juvenile Defense, Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency
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