Juvenile Defender Delinquency Notebook
June 2006 edition from National Juvenile Defender Center (PDF)
Special Education Advocacy Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) For Children in the Juvenile Delinquency System. Edited by Joseph B. Tulman and Joyce A. McGee. 1998. This excellent, comprehensive manual for juvenile defenders explains in detail how to use special education law to benefit clients charged with delinquency. Note: This manual is based on the 1997 regulations to the IDEA. While most of the manual is still accurate and relevant, practitioners should review the 2004 amendments to the IDEA before undertaking representation. (PDF)
Joseph B. Tulman, Disability and Delinquency: How Failures to Identify, Accommodate, and Serve Youth with Education-Related Disabilities Leads to Their Disproportionate Representation in the Delinquency System, 3 WHITTIER J. CHILD & FAM. ADVOC. 3 (2003). (PDF)
Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Resource Guide for Practitioners (PDF)
Juvenile Justice Journal, Volume IX, Number 1 (Causes and Correlates) (PDF)
Disproportionate Minority Confinement: 2002 Update (PDF)
Assessing the Mental Health Status of Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings (PDF)
Incarceration of Youth Who Are Waiting for Community Mental Health Services in the United States (PDF)
Related testimony of Sen. Waxman before the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Affairs (PDF)
Access to Counsel (PDF)
Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults: An Analysis of State Transfer and Blended Sentencing Laws (PDF)
Girls in the Justice System: Perspectives on Services and Conditions of Confinement (PDF)
Child Delinquency: Early Intervention and Prevention (PDF)