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- Ensuring Access to Counsel in Ohio: Ohio Juvenile Justice Overview(Fact Sheet by the ACLU, the Children’s Law Center, and the Office of the Ohio State Public Defender.
- Juvenile Criminal Justice Flowchart
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- Falling Through the Cracks Update
This December 2013 update of the earlier Falling Through the Cracks report provides details on developments at the state and national level with regard to bindover, as well as focusing attention on local practices for prosecuting youth as adults within Ohio. - In Their Own Words
- Ohio – Justice Cut Short: An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings
- A Parent’s Guide to the Ohio Juvenile Justice System
- Petition to the Supreme Court to Prohibit Waiver of Counsel
- Practitioner’s Guide to Juvenile Detention in Ohio
- Services for Students with Disabilities in Ohio Detention Facilities
- Summary of Report to Ohio Forums
- Falling Through the Cracks Update
- Ensuring Access to Counsel in Ohio (Project with the ACLU, the Children’s Law Center, Inc., and the Office of the Ohio Public Defender):
- Law Review Articles
- Akron Law Review Symposium (1996) They grow up so fast: When juveniles commit adult crimes, Volume 29 Spring 1996 Number 3
- Susan R. Bell, Ohio Gets Tough on Juvenile Crime: An Analysis of Ohio’s 1996 Amendments Concerning the Bindover of Violent Juvenile Offenders to the Adult System and Related Legislation, 66 U. Cin. L. Rev. 207 (1997)
- Laura Beresh-Taylor, COMMENT: Preventing Violence in Ohio’s Schools, 33 Akron L. Rev. 311 (2000)
- Susan A. Burns, COMMENT: Is Ohio Juvenile Justice Still Serving Its Purpose?, 29 Akron L. Rev. 335 (1996)
- Thomas R. Goots, COMMENT: A Thug in Prison cannot Shoot Your Sister: Ohio Appears Ready to Resurrect the Habitual Criminal Statute- Will it Withstand an Eigth Amendment Challenge?, 28 Akron L. Rev. 253, 1995.
- Interim Detention of Juvenile Delinquents in Ohio: A Proposal for Controlling Judicial Discretion, 39 Ohio St. L.J. 306 (1978).
- Scott C. Zarzycki, NOTE: A Current Look at Ohio’s Juvenile Justice System on the 100th Anniversary of the Juvenile Court, 47 Clev. St. L.Rev. 627 (1999)
- Other Resources
- Key Supreme Court of Ohio Cases of Interest to Juvenile Defense Lawyers
- ACLU’s “Know Your Rights Campaign” in Ohio
- Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio, Status of Ohio’s Children: Juvenile Justice for Ohio’s Children?
- National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Mental Health Courts: Program Descriptions, Processes, and Procedures (August 2005).
- Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, Students with Disabilities Over-Represented in Juvenile Justice System; Does Disability=Delinquency?
- Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services
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