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Jeffrey A. Butts John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York

Positive What? Reframing the Goals of Juvenile Justice Interventions. Jeffrey A. Butts John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting Chicago, IL November 16, 2012. Juvenile Crime Decline?.

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Jeffrey A. Butts John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York

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  1. Positive What? Reframing the Goals of Juvenile Justice Interventions Jeffrey A. Butts John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting Chicago, IL November 16, 2012

  2. Juvenile Crime Decline? Serious, violent youth crime continues to fall.

  3. Juvenile Crime Decline? Violent youth crime continues to account for a very small portion of all arrests.

  4. Juvenile Crime Decline? Juvenile court caseloads have not declined as much as youth arrests. Thus, court caseloads today are increasingly made up of less serious offenses. What’s the plan?

  5. Effective Intervention Must Include • Dual Focus on: •  Risk Factors •  Protective Factors Logic Maximum Use of:  Family Resources  Community Partners Economics Parallel Efforts to:  Generate Evidence of Impact  Facilitate Successful Replication

  6. If our Goal is Effectiveness… • When choosing interventions for youth in the justice system, we must be AGNOSTIC -- open to new facts •  Advocating one intervention over another based on turf, convenience, bias or financial interests is simply wrong •  Central goal of intervention is to ensure community safety by changing youth behavior -- NOT merely to deliver a particular type of service or to ensure the financial stability of providers

  7. 7 Grounded in Science of Adolescence • There are plenty of good reasons to believe that using the principles of adolescent development to frame interventions will help to reduce youth crime.

  8. 8 Focusing Youth Justice on PYD How do we transform youth justice systems to focus on practical ways of attaching youth to assets and facilitating positive youth development?

  9. Supportive relationships • Rewards for work • Skill development • Success in learning • Physical activity and sports • Music and the arts • Civic engagement • Community/political involvement 9 Positive Youth Development  Strengths and assets Attachment, engagement, and socialization Usefulness and belonging Broad system of community-based supports Allow all youth to experience opportunities and activities that youth in wealthy communities take for granted:

  10. Community Network for Youth DevelopmentSan Francisco 40 Developmental Assets National Research Council Institute for Applied Research in Youth DevelopmentTufts University Promising and Effective Practices National Youth Employment Coalition National Clearinghouse and Families & Youth Youth Development Framework 10 Not Adapted for Youth Offenders

  11. 2010 Report Butts, Jeffrey A., Gordon Bazemore, and AundraSaa Meroe (2010)  Positive youth justice: Framing justice interventions using the concepts of positive youth development Washington, DC: Coalition for Juvenile Justice. www.juvjustice.org

  12. PYJ Model: Positive Youth Justice

  13. Contact Information Jeffrey A. Butts, Ph.D. Director, Research & Evaluation CenterJohn Jay College of Criminal JusticeCity University of New York http://johnjayresearch.org/rec jbutts@jjay.cuny.edu

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