Kentucky's Turnaround On Prosecuting Minors For 'Status Offenses' Like Truancy For years, Kentucky aggressively prosecuted minors for breaking curfew or underage drinking. The state is now taking ...

When children commit crimes that are only crimes by virtue of their age, they require a different response from the juvenile justice system. Thankfully, child welfare and juvenile ...

The status offense that tops the list of juvenile misbehavior is truancy. Kellie Shouse, 22, says missing school was a habit for her starting in middle school. Shouse was in eighth grade and ran ...

1. Truancy. Truancy, or skipping school, was one of the earliest official status offenses. “There are so many better ways to make sure kids get back in school” than sending them into the ...

The Prison Policy Initiative recently issued a report finding that status offenses and technical violations lead to the incarceration of more than 5,000 young people nationwide.

By definition, status offenses are acts that are considered criminal only when committed by a juvenile. They include truancy, running away from home, underage drinking, disobeying parents, and ...

Status offenses could include things like truancy, curfew violations, or vaguer offenses such as “incorrigibility.” These offenses don’t directly harm anyone.

Still, Texas accounts for more than 15 percent of the confinements nationally, with 1,300 juveniles being held in detention facilities for status offenses, which are nonviolent misbehaviors, such ...

Status offenses are generally crimes that are age-specific. For example, an adult would not be arrested for skipping school, running away from home, or disobedience to parents, but these are all po… ...

Status offenses are a particularly trivial form of legal offense, only labeled a crime because the person committing them is a minor. Punishing truancy and curfew violations should not be the role ...

Eighty-five percent of incarcerated youth had committed non-violent offenses, and the number of youths sent to court for “status offenses” such as truancy and curfew violations was at an all ...