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Kids and the Justice System

Over 16,000 Arizona children and teens were referred to the juvenile justice system in 2024. 2,058 of those kids were in Pima County; of those, 192 youth spent time at the Juvenile Detention Center where PCPL operates a library program. Children not directly in the system may have parents who are incarcerated. Read on to learn more about current and historical perspectives on this issue.

Pima County Public Library

16 items

  • The Opposing Viewpoints digital resource offers varying perspectives on issues surrounding juvenile justice in the United States.
    eBook, 2010–Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2010- — eBook
  • Children of the State

    Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System

    Hobbs, Jeff, 1980-
    Book, 2023New York : Scribner, 2023. — 364.36097 H6525c 2023
  • The Criminalization of Black Children

    Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899–1945

    Tera Eva Agyepong
    eBook, 2018The University of North Carolina Press, 2018
  • The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), located in Pittsburgh, PA is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and is the oldest juvenile justice research group in the United States, having conducted…
    Website or Online Data, 199–?–Pittsburgh, PA : National Center for Juvenile Justice, [199-?- — Internet National
  • The Opposing Viewpoints digital resource offers varying perspectives on controversies and ideas around school discipline. Many youth enter the justice system as a result of behavior and consequences in school.
    eBook, 2010–Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2010- — eBook
  • Shackled

    A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away

    Cooper, Candy J.
    eAudiobook, 2024Recorded Books, Inc., 2024
  • No Way to Treat a Child

    How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives

    Naomi Schaefer Riley
    eBook, 2021BD - Bombardier, 2021
  • Pushout

    The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

    Couvson, Monique
    eBook, 2018The New Press, 2018
  • A look at juvenile court over 50 years ago. What do you think has changed since then?
    Streaming Video, 1973Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah), 1973. — Streaming Video
  • The Learning Curve

    Creating a Cultural Framework to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Baker, Erica
    eBook, 2018Opportune Independent Publishing Company, 2018
  • Dear Dad

    a Graphic Memoir : Growing Up With a Parent in Prison - and How We Stayed Connected

    Patton, Jay Jay
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, Kaepernick Publishing, 2024. — 362.8295 P2785d 2024 CHILD
  • What Will Happen to Me

    Every Night, Approximately Three Million Children Go to Bed with a Parent in Prison or Jail

    Zehr, Howard
    eBook, 2015Good Books, 2015