How does parental criminality influence child outcomes? How do attitudes, communications, and everyday parenting practices foster continuities or influence positive changes in youth?
How do young men and women from the inner-city accomplish successful transitions from incarceration to life back in society? As many as one-third of formerly incarcerated young adults will return to jail or prison within several years of their release.
What caused the California Youth Authority – regarded as the most enlightened juvenile corrections system in the country as recently as the mid-1970s – to become the focus of national publicity on the widespread abuse of its young inmates?
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
