This short news clip features Shay Bilchik, Director of CJJR at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, giving his professional take on the subject of best practices for juvenile justice reform.

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Is the Washington region in the midst of a juvenile crime wave? It’s a simple question. But it’s surprisingly difficult to answer.

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Old Dominion University’s Institute for Community Justice and the city of Norfolk sponsored a Saturday morning meeting, prompted by statistics showing that four times as many black children as white go into Norfolk’s juvenile justice system, while black residents make up less than one-half of the city’s population.

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Two years ago, Brian Meis was in trouble. Arrested for drunken driving while returning home from a party, Meis spent a year in the juvenile court system. Now 19, he plans to attend school to become a police officer.

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Youths tried as adults and housed in adult prisons commit more crimes, often more violent ones, than minors who remain in the juvenile justice system.

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Shay Bilchik, director of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems Integration at Georgetown University, argued for the expansion of successful universal, school-based violence prevention programs, in commentary published in a Supplement to the 33rd volume of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Bilchik’s commentary was written in response to “Effectiveness of Universal School-Based […]

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Center of Juvenile Justice Reform Director Shay Bilchik gives his take on what is necessary in order to build a more effective juvenile justice field.

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