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Jennifer Fratello

Jennifer Fratello

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Innovations in NYC Health and Human Services Policy

The Close to Home Initiative and Related Reforms in Juvenile Justice

Guided by research indicating that community-based alternatives are often more effective and less expensive and stigmatizing than placing juvenile offenders in institutional facilities, New York City has worked to reduce over-reliance on such dispositions and to ensure that those youth that may be placed in an institutional facility are in one near ...

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Jennifer Jensen Ferone, Annie Salsich, Jennifer Fratello

January 03, 2014

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Innovations in NYC Health and Human Services Policy

Juvenile Detention Reform

When New York City began reforming its juvenile detention system in 2006, youth were either sent to detention or released into the community with no formal supervision. The reform effort had the complementary goals of ensuring that costly juvenile detention beds would be reserved primarily for young people who present measurably high levels of risk ...

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Jennifer Fratello, Annie Salsich, Jennifer Jensen Ferone

January 03, 2014

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A Generation Later

What We've Learned About Zero Tolerance in Schools

Zero tolerance school discipline policies—mandating suspension or expulsion of students for misconduct—have gained tremendous momentum in middle and high schools since they were introduced in the late 1980s. This report looks at existing research to answer three questions: How does zero tolerance discipline affect individual students and the overa ...

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Jacob Kang-Brown, Jennifer Trone, Jennifer Fratello, Tarika Daftary-Kapur

December 11, 2013

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Coming of Age with Stop and Frisk

Experiences, Self-Perceptions, and Public Safety Implications

What is the impact of stop and frisk on young people in highly patrolled areas of New York City, and what does it mean for public safety? Find out in this video as lead authors, Jennifer Fratello and Andrés F. Rengifo, discuss the results of their study "Coming of Age with Stop and Frisk: Experiences, Self-Perceptions, and Public Safety Implication ...

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October 17, 2013

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Coming of Age with Stop and Frisk

Experiences, Self-Perceptions, and Public Safety Implications

Amid the debate about stop and frisk in New York City, its relationship to reductions in crime, and concerns about racial profiling, one question has gone largely unexplored: How does being stopped by police, and the frequency of those stops, affect those who experience them at a young age? In New York City, at least half of all recorded stops annu ...

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Jennifer Fratello, Andres F. Rengifo, Jennifer Trone

September 19, 2013

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Looking beyond the stop and frisk statistics

Search online for “stop and frisk.” You’ll quickly amass a mountain of news articles, blog posts, editorials, opinion pieces, and other evidence that there are a lot of strong feelings about this policing practice. In New York City, the police department uses the technique—stopping people on the street and patting them down, sometimes searching th ...

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Jennifer Fratello

October 01, 2012

News

Juvenile Detention Reform in New York City

Measuring Risk through Research

Family Court judges and other decision makers must weigh whether arrested youths are likely to reoffend or fail to appear if allowed to go home prior to their court date. To help guide these decisions, staff from Vera’s Center on Youth Justice partnered with juvenile justice stakeholders in New York City to create and implement a research-based det ...

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Jennifer Fratello

March 31, 2011

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Rerouting juvenile justice resources in the right direction

In Wednesday’s New York Times, Jim Dwyer decries the “fiscal mess” that is a product of the prison economy of much of upstate New York. The Tryon boys’ residential center—cited by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009 for abuse and neglect—currently houses 6 kids, but has 155 employees on the payroll, thanks to an agreement made by then-governor ...

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