A single Canadian teenager made dozens of prank phone calls to police throughout the U.S., sending SWAT teams to hold innocent individuals at gunpoint at their homes as authorities investigated…
Corrected: An 8-year-old boy in Birmingham, Alabama, has been charged with murder in the beating death of a 1-year-old girl left in his care while the toddler’s mother was out…
After some legislative fits and starts, it's gotten a lot harder to drop out of high school in Kentucky. Starting in July of this year, the required attendance age went…
Neuroscience has been creeping into the nation’s courtrooms with greater frequency. Yet the science, while much of it promising, is not quite ready for use as evidence in most legal…
Days before his jury trial was set to begin on Monday over “storm the courthouse” remarks he made on Facebook about a controversial murder trial, a Kansas man has accepted…
The involuntary manslaughter case against a Massachusetts teenager accused of encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide will proceed, a judge has ruled.
Juvenile Court Judge Bettina Borders, in an order…
Ahmed Mohamed loves to build radios and repairs his own go-kart. In middle school, the robotics club was one of his favorite activities, and he hoped to find a similar…
Maryland’s Office of the Public Defender’s post-conviction division has launched an effort to investigate all cases of inmates who, as juveniles, were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility…
Already in juvenile court for proceeding last week, the mother of a 9-year-old girl and her boyfriend are now facing a criminal case after authorities in Cherokee County, Georgia, learned…
A bipartisan effort is underway in Congress to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, a 1974 law that provides crucial support for programs aimed at preventing juvenile delinquency.…
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