ArticleChildren and youth services review2025
Envisioning the Future of Youth Justice: A focus Group Study With Youth, Family, Frontline Staff, and Subject Experts.
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Despite a wave of recent progressive reforms to the US juvenile legal system (JLS), ongoing concerns about punitive, inequitable, and developmentally inappropriate aspects of these systems persist, and the path forward is highly contested. Drawing on the concept of claim-making from scholarship on contentious politics, this study compared a diverse group of actors' priorities for the future of youth justice. A series of 9 focus groups were conducted with 92 participants from multiple regions of the United States, including: 1) frontline JLS staff, 2) system-impacted youth and their families, and 3) JLS professionals/subject experts. Analysis produced one overarching theme: youth justice systems should build a pathway for youth success where the larger community takes an active role ensuring youth access resources needed to thrive. Under this overarching theme, five sub-themes describe claims about how the larger community can fulfill this role: "challenge criminalization of youth," "strengthen the surrounding environment," "humanize youth," "teach accountability," and "implement intentional staffing." Two sub-themes were contentious in the subject expert/professional groups (challenge criminalization and strengthen surrounding environment) and two varied in salience between groups (challenge criminalization and implement intentional staffing). Results point to shared visions of the government and a larger community working to build a youth justice system that guides youth towards long term success, and to some tensions and diverging priorities about systems change. This study can inform directions for coalition building, dialogue, and continued research regarding a path forward for JLS systems change.
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