Tennessee State Profile

• State Profile
  • National Center for Juvenile Justice State Data
  • National Juvenile Defender Center State Data
  • National Juvenile Court Data Archives State Data
• Juvenile Law Provisions
  • Tennessee Juvenile Code  (Title 37)
• Courts
  • Courts with Juvenile Jurisdiction
  • Davidson County Juvenile Court
  • Juvenile Court for Jefferson County
  • Juvenile Court of Shelby County
  • Tennessee Juvenile Court Services Association
  • Tennessee administrative office of the courts
  • The Tennessee Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
• Public Defender Websites
  • Blount County District Public Defender
  • Davidson County Public Defender’s Office
  • Knox County Public Defender
  • Metropolitan Public Defender’s Office
  • Shelby County Public Defender
• Government Offices
  • Davidson County Social Services
  • Department of Children’s Services, Division of Juvenile Justice
  • Tennessee State Government
  • Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
  • Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth
• Law Enforcement
  • About.com listing
  • Davidson County Sheriff’s Office
• Bar Associations
  • Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • Tennessee Bar Association
  • TBA Lawyer Referral Service
• Non-Profit Organizations
  • Tennessee Voices for Children
  • YMCA of Middle Tennessee
• 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.
  • Community Residential Programs
  • List of Juvenile Detention and Temporary Holding Facilities
  • Youth Development Centers
  • Tennessee Department of Correction
• 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)