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Reforming Juvenile Justice
The report’s key findings and messages will be presented and invited experts will examine opportunities to use recommendatons to reform our nation’s juvenile justice systems.
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| | | DBASSE Reports Related to Gun Violence and Schools
A 2005 report from the Committee on Law and Justice, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, found that there is scant evidence about the effectiveness of current measures to prevent and control gun violence and outlined a comprehensive research program. In 2003, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and CLAJ studied youth violence in schools: Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence.
| | CLAJ Member Spotlight | | |  John J. Donohue III
CLAJ Member Stanford Law School John J. Donohue III is well known for using empirical analysis to determine the impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas, including examinations of the impact on crime of the death penalty, incarceration, guns, and legalization of abortion. ► Read more | | |
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 | | | | Reforming Juvenile Justice |  The science of adolescent development should be at the forefront of systemwide juvenile justice reform efforts, from arrested detention to legal proceedings and interventions, says the report Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach.
► Public Briefing - June 10, 2013
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Deterrence and the Death Penalty |  Many studies over the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions.
The report, Deterrence and the Death Penalty, concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases or has no effect on these rates. ► Read more ► Download the report brief | | | | |
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