Media Coverage

CJJ's SOS Project and the National Standards for the Care of Youth Charged with Status Offenses have received extensive traditional and new media coverage. Below, you can read blog posts, articles, and op-eds that have been published about relating to CJJ's work on status offenses

Blog Posts

We Can Do More to Ensure Equitable Treatment of LGBTQ Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
By Marie Williams, Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice & Ellen Khan, M.S.S., Director, Children, Youth and Families Program, Human Rights Campaign

‘Those Kinds of Kids’: Meeting the Needs of LGBTQ Youth of Color Charged with Status Offenses
By Bernadette Brown, Senior Program Specialist, National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Diagnosis: Adolescence, Not Otherwise Specified
By Shawn C. Marsh, Ph.D., Chief Program Officer over Juvenile Law, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

National Status Offense Standards Help Build Momentum for Reform
By Annie Salsich, Director, Center on Youth Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice

Improving the Court’s Response to Status Offenders
By Judge Michael Nash, Presiding Judge, Juvenile Court at Los Angeles Superior Court

Gender Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System
By the Honorable Chandlee Johnson Kuhn, Chief Judge, Family Court of the State of Delaware

Truancy, Running Away and Other Status Offenses – The Coalition for Juvenile Justice Releases Policy and Practice Recommendations
By Edward Loughran, Executive Director, Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators

Bright Idea: Limiting Court Involvement Among Runaway Youth
National Clearinghouse on Families

More Harm Than Good: In Support of Eliminating the Use of Secure Confinement for Non-Delinquent Youth
By Marie Williams, Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Media Coverage

Five Ways to Stop Criminalizing Victimized Girls
By Jeannette Pai-Espinosa, President, the National Crittenton Foundation

To Address Disproportionate Minority Contact Keep Status Offenders Out of Courts
By Marie Williams, Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Groups Propose Structure for Less Courts in Status Offense System
By John Kelly

Report Urges Ban on Detaining Status Offenders
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and Youth Today
By Gary Gately

Center Aims to Keep Status Offenders Out of Courts
By Gary Gately

Juvenile Justice Advocates Urge Effective Ways of Handling Status Offenders
The Crime Report

Once a Bad Girl, Not Always a Bad Girl
By Jeanette Pai-Espinosa

New National Status Offense Standards Reshape Practice
By Lisa Pilnik, Deputy Executive Director, Coalition for Juvenile Justice

LGBTQ Youths Detained for Status Offenses Twice as Often as Others
By Gary Gately