Tennessee State Profile
- State Profile
- Juvenile Law Provisions
- Tennessee Juvenile Code (Title 37)
- Courts
- Public Defender Websites
- Government Offices
- Law Enforcement
- Bar Associations
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Correction/Detention Facilities
Tennessee has 26 juvenile detention facilities administered by county commissions/boards, juvenile courts, or private contractors. Approximately half of these facilities are classified as temporary holding facilities. The rest are classified as secure detention facilities. Alternatives to detention include home supervision, electronic home monitoring, evening report centers, and day report centers. - Law Review Articles
- Theresa Glennon, Disabling Ambiguities: Confronting Barriers to the Education of Students with Emotional Disabilities, 60 Tenn. L. Rev. 295 (1993)
- Other Resources
- Assessment of Disproportionate Minority Confinement (DMC) in Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice System, Juvenile Law Center (2003)
- Carolyn S. Breda, The mental health orientation of juvenile courts, Tennessee Bar Association, The Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Feb. 2001)
- Disproportionate Minority Confinement Study, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
- Charles Glisson and Philip Green, The Role of Specialty Mental Health Care in Predicting Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Out-of-Home Placements, Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 16, No. 5, 480-490 (2006)
- Ricky Inman, The relationship between truancy and juvenile crime
- Rights of Juveniles, Tennessee Bar Association
- Tennessee’s Children 2007, Child Welfare League of America
- Tennessee’s Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities:Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Developmental Disability Issues, Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Juvenile Justice Work Group (June 2004)