UNR Justice Management Graduate Degree Program

04/14/2021

Before he came home on holiday break in late 2015, Quintonio LeGrier, an engineering student at Northern Illinois University, had been acting erratically. There were a series of incidents on campus. He got into a dorm fight and had been charged with a misdemeanor in March. Two months later, he shout...

04/13/2021

Free webinar featuring Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who is the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts and an outspoken champion for increased transparency for special interests seeking to influence judicial outcomes

Register here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VpCnDMr3Q72nFwv7PCufZA

04/12/2021

Study finds that jailed teens with untreated psychiatric disorders are at increased risk for long-term mental health struggles

04/09/2021

Professor Nikki Garlic discusses virtual hearing inequities in this column for the American Bar Association's Judicial Division

Videoconferencing software, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, is increasingly used to facilitate access to the courts during the pandemic. While the software can bring physically distant parties together, not all connections are equal.

04/09/2021

OJJDP funds South Carolina program to reduce time juveniles spend in isolation

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice has received a grant of nearly $750,000 grant to reduce use of isolation in its secure facilities. The department announced

03/12/2021

Don't juvenile justice staff need trauma-informed practices too?

This is an interesting opinion piece on the topic.

The well-established finding that a majority of youth in the juvenile justice system have been exposed to trauma has led to a clarion call for the implementation of trauma-informed practices. However, to date, less attention has been paid to the importance of providing juvenile justice staff with th...

03/11/2021

Assemblywoman makes case for treating pretrial house arrest as time served

Last year, Assemblywoman Selena Torres heard from a former student who had been confined to house arrest for nearly 13 months awaiting his trial — the alleged crime wasn’t specified — because court dates were rescheduled and pushed back due to Covid restrictions and safety measures. When he fi...

03/10/2021

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03/03/2021

Ethical concerns with random control trials used in criminal justice research highlighted here

On January 24th, Law360 published a story quoting our Staff Attorney, Katy Naples-Mitchell, entitled, “Studying Justice Or Hurting It: The Fight Over A2J Research.” Her quotes, while accurate, were significantly abbreviated and do not fully capture our concerns and critiques about the research, ...

02/19/2021

Attending Zoom court from the barber shop?

He made it to his court date while he was getting his hair cut.

02/18/2021

Dismantling juvenile jails - California set to close down its last juvenile prisons

With California's youth prisons scheduled to close after 80 years, counties are rushing to decide what to do with the toughest juvenile crime cases.

02/17/2021

Nevada legislature may decriminalize minor traffic violations

Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen, D-Las Vegas, filed legislation Friday that would decriminalize minor traffic violations, making them civil infractions and ending the practice of issuing warrants whe...