The Miami Herald investigation Juvenile Crime, Adult Time found that teens sentenced as adults got stiffer sentences than adult offenders. A series of new bills could change that.

But much of our perspective has changed in the last 25 years. The Supreme Court in 1967 likened the juvenile delinquency system, even with its 19th-century rhetoric of care, informality and ...

One program provides significant funding for juvenile justice, but does it deter the system from locking up violent kids?

In one of the highest juvenile delinquency areas in Washington, D.C., teachers were asked to send their most anti-social youngsters to a special test center; 179 youngsters reported, and the ...

"My sisters and my brother were both like, 'Just take some drugs,'" Handler says of her reluctance to visit the Bush compound ...

In Part One of our 'Juvenile Crime Crisis' series, we reveal how violent crime is on the rise, detention is down, and experts are at odds over a solution.

I understand the frustration that leads to calls for “getting tough on juvenile crime.” Bernalillo County District Attorney ...