racial disproportionality

In New York, a new campaign calls for passage of a bill that would require consent before drug testing a new or pregnant mother.

Richard Wexler writes that white, middle-class families who face CPS investigations experience less intrusion than more marginalized families.

Many in the child welfare space are quick to say Black Lives Matter, but opinion writer Kenyon Lee Whitman asks: Where are the policies aimed at anti-racism, family unification and permanence for Black children?

Five Black women share the essence of sisterhood on a new podcast, where they discuss growing up within a fractured child welfare system.

Juvenile Court Judge Katherine Lucero is leading California to its goal of eliminating youth prisons and shifting resources to healing.

Contra Costa District Attorney Diana Becton is among a small group of district attorneys working to dial back decades of tough-on-crime approaches and as she does so, faces challenges.

As Los Angeles County becomes the latest child welfare system to turn to big data and algorithms, critics worry these tools will exacerbate inequalities.

In California, the Independent Forensic Gang Expert College is training courtroom specialists who were gang members in their youth.

The field of emerging adult justice is new in the U.S. but the research that informs this field is well-established, write the authors.