Can Positive Youth Development Improve Juvenile Justice?
The Urban Institute | Can Positive Youth Development Improve Juvenile Justice?
Youth crime has declined for much of the past decade, but analysts don't expect the good news to last forever. This panel discussed intervention programs built around concepts of positive youth development, a promising new approach to making juvenile justice more effective. The programs suggest that children develop into successful adults by working through a sequence of developmental stages in which they gradually acquire capacities for reason, self-respect, and personal and social responsibility.
