Resources

This page will be regularly updated with Chicago and Illinois related Juvenile Justice Resources.  These will be resources that are not already included on the website.

2011 Year-End Assessment of Department of Juvenile Justice by the John Howard Association of Illinois

Counting Latino Youth in the Illinois Juvenile Justice System by Enlace Chicago and the National Council of La Raza

Gender Matters — Report from the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (Court Advocates Group – April 2008) to the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center

Gender Matters: Report to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (Spring 2008)

Sum, Andrew et. al. (November 2011). “High School Dropouts in Chicago and Illinois: The Growing Labor Market, Income, Civic, Social and Fiscal Costs of Dropping Out of High School. Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University.

Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission – Youth Reentry Report

Incarcerated Youth and Childhood Trauma by John Howard Association

Infographic: A Snapshot of Youth Facing Felonies in Cook County by the Chicago Reporter (2010)

Policies & Procedures of the Illinois Juvenile Justice System (ICJIA) by Lindsay Bostwick (2010)

Report: Monitoring Tour of IYC Chicago by John Howard Association