Maine

A New Vision for Youth Justice in Maine (Maine Youth Justice)

Invest in Community, Not Incarceration (Maine Youth Justice) 

Place Matters: Aligning Investments in a Community-Based Continuum of Care for Maine Youth Transitioning to Adulthood, (Justice Policy Program, USM Muskie School of Public Service and the Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law at the University of Maine School of Law, March 2019) 

Positive Youth Outcomes in Maine’s Juvenile Justice System (USM Muskie School of Public Service, January 2019)

Youth Justice in Maine: Imagine a New Future Summit Summary & Recommendations (Justice Policy Program, USM Muskie School of Public Service and the Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law at the University of Maine School of Law, January 2018)

Youth Recidivism: Diversion to discharge in Maine’s juvenile justice system (USM Muskie School of Public Service, November 2017)

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

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

Profile of Youth Committed at Long Creek Youth Development Center as of July 1, 2016 (Maine Department of Corrections, January 19, 2017)

An Initiative to Develop a Sustainable Restorative Juvenile Justice System: A Final Report to Maine’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Group (Burford, G., Gallagher, S., Gennette, K., Gorczyk, J., Shaler, G., &  Wheeldon, J., January 2017)

Long Creek Youth Development Center Board of Visitors 2017-18 Annual Report

Long Creek Youth Development Center Board of Visitors 2016 Annual Report

Disproportionate Contact: Youth of Color in Maine’s Juvenile Justice System (USM Muskie School of Public Affairs,  2015)

An Improved Police Response to Juveniles in Crisis – A Collaborative Approach (Shapiro, J. April 2011)

National Juvenile Justice Research

Promoting a New Direction for Youth Justice: Strategies to Fund a Community-Based Continuum of Care and Opportunity (Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute, March 2019)

Transforming Closed Youth Prisons: Repurposing Facilities to Meet Community Needs. (Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute, June 2018)

What Justice Requires: Closing Youth Prisons (Center for Public Justice, 2017)

The Future of Youth Justice: A Community-Based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model (Patrick McCarthy, Vincent Schiraldi, and Miriam Shark, 2016)

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

How Does Incarcerating Young People Affect Their Adult Health Outcomes? (Elizabeth S. Barnert,Rebecca Dudovitz, Bergen B. Nelson, Tumaini R. Coker, Christopher Biely, Ning Li, Paul J. Chung, 2016)

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

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

Re-Examining Juvenile Incarceration: High Cost, poor outcomes spark shift to alternatives (Pew 2015)

Safely Home (Youth Advocate Program, Inc., 2014)

Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration (Justice Policy Institute, 2014)