Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Jail Monitoring

Principal investigator(s):

David L. Perry (1988–1990)

N.E. Schafer (1991–2001)

Other project personnel:

Emily Read

Richard Curtis

Cassie Atwell

Project dates: 1988–2001
JC#: 8906, 9004, 9106, 9119, 9229, 9420, 9503, 9611,
9701, 9802, 9909, 0002, 0108, 0206
Funding agency:

Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (to 1999)

Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (2000–2001)

Project amount: $634,017
Project status: Completed
 

From 1988 to 2001 the Justice Center, under contract with the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (until 1999) and the Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice, monitored Alaska's compliance with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) of 1974. The Justice Center also developed the plan for conducting monitoring activities used through FY 2001.

JJDPA mandates (1) deinstitutionalization of status offenders — meaning that youths accused of offenses which would not be crimes if they were adults, such as running away, curfew violation, or possession of alcohol, are not to be held in secure detention; (2) sight and sound separation between juvenile and adult offenders for those juvenile offenders who are detained; (3) removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups (through, for example, placement in juvenile detention centers).

Project activities each year included collection of data from all secure institutions in which juveniles might be detained. In addition, project staff conduct edsite visits to one third of the over 100 jails, lockups, and juvenile facilities in the monitoring universe, with each site visited once every three years.

Products

Reports Summary Document

Policies and procedures manuals

   

Alaska's System for Monitoring Compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act by David L. Perry. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1988.

   

Policies and Procedures for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring by David L. Perry. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990.

   

Alaska's System for Monitoring Compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, revised, by N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1994.

  Document in PDF format

Policies and Procedures for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring, revised, by N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1994.

   

Annual monitoring reports

   

1987 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by David L. Perry. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1989.

   

1988 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by David L. Perry. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990.

   

JJDP Monitoring Data — 1988: JJDP Violations and Juvenile Detention Counts for Lockups, Jails, Adult Correctional Facilities and Juvenile Detention Centers by David L. Perry. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990.

   

1989 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Emily E. Read. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990.

   

1990 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Emily E. Read and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1991.

   

1991 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act ompliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1992.

   

1992 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis, Cassie Atwell, and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1993.

   

1993 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis, Cassie Atwell, and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1994.

  Document in PDF format

FY 1994 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis, Cassie Atwell, and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1995.

  Document in PDF format

Detention of Juveniles in Alaska: Preliminary Report by N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services, 1995.

   

FY 1995 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis, Cassie Atwell, and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1996.

   

FY 1996 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis, Cassie Atwell, and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1996.

   

FY 1997 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Richard W. Curtis and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1997.

  Document in PDF format

FY 1998 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Cassie Atwell, Kelley Connor, and N.E. Schafer. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999.

  Document in PDF format

FY 1999 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Cassie Atwell, N.E. Schafer, and Jason Werre. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice. Anchorage: Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, April 2000.

   

FY 2000 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act Compliance Monitoring Report by Cassie Atwell, N.E. Schafer, Brian Lepine, and Richard W. Curtis. Report prepared for the Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice. Anchorage:Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage, March 2001.

   
Articles Article Complete issue

"Juvenile Jailing Monitored" by David L. Perry. Alaska Justice Forum 6(3), Fall 1989.

Alaska Justice Forum article in HTML format

"Jail Monitoring" by N.E. Schafer and Emily E. Read. Alaska Justice Forum 8(1), Spring 1991.

Alaska Justice Forum article in HTML format

"Juvenile Detention in Alaska, 1993" by N.E. Schafer and Richard W. Curtis. Alaska Justice Forum 11(3), Fall 1994.

Alaska Justice Forum article in HTML format Complete Alaska Justice Forum issue in PDF format

"Detention of Juveniles in Alaska: Preliminary Report" by N.E. Schafer and Richard W. Curtis. Alaska Justice Forum 12(1), Spring 1995.

Alaska Justice Forum article in HTML format Complete Alaska Justice Forum issue in PDF format

"Juvenile Jail Monitoring in Alaska" by Cassie Atwell. Alaska Justice Forum 17(4), Winter 2001.

Alaska Justice Forum article in HTML format Complete Alaska Justice Forum issue in PDF format
Conference papers    

"Alaska as a Case Study of OJJDP-Mandated Jail Monitoring" by N.E. Schafer and Emily E. Read. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, Chicago, October 1990.

Not available
online

"Detention of Juveniles in Alaska" by N.E. Schafer. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, March 1995.

Not available
online