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Since
1988 the Justice Center, under contract with the Alaska Division
of Family and Youth Services (until 1999) and the Alaska Division
of Juvenile Justice, has 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.
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 include
collection of data from all secure institutions in which juveniles
might be detained. In addition, project staff conduct site 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.
- See also:
Juvenile justice > Alaska juvenile corrections
Related agencies
- Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ)
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Background information
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Full text of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended (Public Law 93-415, 42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.) and information related to the act; through OJJDP.
- "The JJDP Act Mandates: Rationale and Summary" by Kathleen Kositzky Crank. OJJDP Fact Sheet #22. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, January 1995.
Justice Center
articles & reports
(in reverse chronological
order)
- "Juvenile Jail Monitoring in Alaska" by Cassie Atwell. Alaska Justice Forum 17(4), Winter 2001.
- "Detention of Juveniles in Alaska: Preliminary Report" by N.E. Schafer and Richard W. Curtis. Alaska Justice Forum 12(1), Spring 1995.
- "Juvenile Detention in Alaska, 1993" by N.E. Schafer and Richard W. Curtis. Alaska Justice Forum 11(3), Fall 1994.
- "Jail Monitoring" by N.E. Schafer and Emily E. Read. Alaska Justice Forum 8(1), Spring 1991.
- "Juvenile Jailing Monitored" by David L. Perry. Alaska Justice Forum 6(3), Fall 1989.
Justice Center projects
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Jail Monitoring [project] (JC 8906, 9004, 9106, 9119, 9229, 9420, 9503, 9611, 9701, 9802, 9909, 0002, 0108, 0206). N.E. Schafer. Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (through FY 1999), Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (beginning FY 2000). Annual since 1987.