Kentucky State Profile

• Non-profit Organizations
  • Children’s Law Center, Inc. 
  • Legal Aid in Kentucky
  • Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
  • Partners for Youth
  • Kentucky YMCAs
  • Kentucky Youth Advocates
  • Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass
  • Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children
  • List of Children’s Advocacy Centers
• Courts
  • Kentucky Court of Justice
  • Kentucky Supreme Court
  • Kentucky Family Court
  • Teen court
• Juvenile Law Provisions
  • Kentucky Juvenile Code (Chapter 600)
• Public Defender Offices
  • Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
  • Kentucky Innocence Project
• State Profile
  • National Juvenile Court Data Archives State Data
  • National Juvenile Defender Center State Data
• Government Offices
  • Kentucky Attorney Generals Office
  • Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
  • Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice
• Corrections/Detention Facilities
  • Kentucky Department of Corrections, Division of Mental health
• Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Kentucky Police, Sheriff, and other Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Kentucky Law Enforcement Agencies
• Bar Associations
  • Kentucky Bar
  • Fayette County
  • Louisville
  • Northern Kentucky
• News
  • Federal Lawsuit Targets Shackling of Children with Disabilities in School
  • Children’s Law Center Blog Talk Radio–Spotlight on Youth
• Publications
  • 2015 Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children 
  • The Advocate Newsletter (Summary of Kentucky’s Heroin Bill and other Legislative Changes)
  • 2015 Kids Count Data Book
  • Kentucky – Advancing Justice: An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings
  • Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Zero Tolerance and Other Exclusionary Policies on Kentucky Students, (with Building Blocks for Youth)
  • Practitioner’s Guide to Juvenile Detention in Kentucky
• Law Review Articles
  • Lowell Schechter. ARTICLE: An Introduction to Re-envisioning the Role of the Juvenile Court in the 21st Century, 34 N. Ky. L. Rev. 181
• Other Resources
  • Gennaro F. Vito & Thomas J. Keil, Dangerousness and the Death Penalty: an Examination of Juvenile Homicides in Kentucky, The Prison Journal, Vol. 84, No. 4, 436-451 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/0032885504269628
  • Knowledge and Perceptions of Juvenile Justice Officials about Selection Bias