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DMC eNews Reports on DMC Action Network Efforts
DMC eNews is an electronic newsletter that reports on how the 12 DMC Action Network sites are reducing racial and ethnic disparities in their juvenile justice systems. The brief newsletter, to be published semi-monthly, is designed to spread the word about strategic innovations that successfully reduce Disproportionate Minority Contact, or DMC.

The sites in the DMC Action Network are among the leaders in DMC reduction in the United States. Each issue of DMC eNews will include a short feature on an aspect of DMC reduction, a link to a useful resource, a profile of a DMC Action Network site, and a true story that illustrates the successes and lessons learned at these sites.

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Adoration of the Question: Reflections on the Failure to Reduce Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System [pdf] is the first in a series of reports from the W. Haywood Burns Institute (BI). The series will explore the tools, insights and strategies that the BI has used to help jurisdictions reduce racial and ethnic disparities in their juvenile justice systems.

The Fall 2008 issue of The Future of Children focuses on Juvenile Justice, and includes articles on adolescent development, disproportionate minority contact, female offenders and other key topics. The Future of Children is a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution.

Critical Condition: African American Youth in the Justice System [pdf] This excellent new Campaign for Youth Justice report details continued racial disparities and overrepresentation of African American youth at most stages in the juvenile justice system.

The Sentencing Project has published a new edition of Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System, a manual for practitioners, policymakers, and community organizations. Although it focuses on the adult system, the manual’s workable solutions and “best practices” also apply to juvenile justice systems.

OJJDP Report on Juvenile Transfer [pdf] The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention released a bulletin concluding that laws transferring youth to adult criminal court have little or no deterrent effect on juvenile crime, and have led to more recidivism, not less.