It’s difficult to imagine anything more terrifying and devastating than your child being charged with a crime. At a time when you want to do everything in your power to protect your child, parents ...

FIRST ON FOX: It was a horror she says her family predicted. Foulla Niotis says her 17-year-old daughter, Maria, and Maria's best friend, Isabella Salas, were run down and killed by Maria's stalker ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Senate Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law will hear Senate Bill 449 on Tuesday, January 28. This legislation would reduce the minimum age for committing children to the adult ...

ILLINOIS (WAND) - An Illinois judge is seeking the creation of a young adult branch of circuit courts in Illinois, calling the option potentially "far more humane" than adult criminal courts. The idea ...

Seats for justices at the Supreme Court of Texas pictured on Dec. 18, 2024, in Austin. A Houston-area juvenile judge must once again decide whether a man accused of capital murder as a teen — but not ...

It’s commonly assumed that juvenile offenders thrown into the adult court and prison system are the worst of the worst, beyond rehabilitation. But a new report released today paints an altogether ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is taking most 17-year-olds with offenses out of the adult criminal justice system. The change is effective this month under the second part of 2017 legislation that ...

A new study is estimating the number of children in the U.S. who grow up in households where at least one parent or adult has had run-ins with the justice system. Researchers from the University of ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan set out to quantify the number of children in homes in which a parent or adult faced at least one criminal charge, was convicted of a felony or spent time ...