Reviving juvenile justice in a get-tough era

State and local jurisdictions throughout the United States enacted a wide a rray of new juvenile justice policies in recent years. Many of these polici es were intended to make the juvenile justice system tougher, but others im proved prevention, increased rehabilitation, and enhanced the restorative f eatures of the juvenile justice system. This article describes the most pro minent new ideas in juvenile justice and addresses a question usually asked by policy makers: What works? It suggests that a new generation of innovat ive programs might revive the spirit of American juvenile justice.