JJI Reports

 Children’s Experience with Virtual Court, Dec. 2021

 Pretrial Detention of Children During a Pandemic, Reforms that Protect Children After Trial not in place for Children Before Trial – Findings and Implications for Reform, Feb. 2021

 Transfer of Children to Adult Court – Review of Outcomes from 2015 Transfer Reforms. May, 2020

 Reimagine Juvenile Detention in Illinois

 Detention of Juveniles in Illinois: Recommendations to Right-Size Detention through Reforms and Fiscal Incentives to Develop Community-Based Alternatives. April, 2018

 Young Adults in Conflict with the Law: Opportunities for Diversion, 2017

 Automatic Adult Prosecution of Children in Cook County, Illinois, 2010-2012.

 SHIFTING AWAY FROM INCARCERATION: Fiscal Realignment Strategies to End the Mass Incarceration of Youth in the United States. Prepared by Elizabeth Clark, President. Presented at Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) in London, Nov. 2012.

 Changing Course: A Review of First Two Years of Drug Transfer Reform in Illinois. Prepared by Elizabeth Kooy, a former Policy Research Analyst/Advocate.

Impact of Access to Social Workers with Defense Counsel at Detention Hearings Grants, Prepared by Elizabeth Kooy, Policy Research Analyst, June 2009

Check out JJI’s Youtube Channel for videos of recent summits with national leaders sharing expertise on topics from deincarceration to human rights of children.

JJI has two videos on the harms of the failed policy of automatic transfer to adult court:

Transfer Laws in IL 2002

Changing Course: A Review of the First Two Years of Drug Transfer Reform in IL. 2014