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This issue brief:
• addresses the role that detention plays in handling youth
brought before the court and the potential harm done by
the inappropriate use of this intervention,
• illustrates the lack of ample and consistent information on
the situations leading to the use of detention, and
• offers recommendations about how to decrease the number
of youth unnecessarily or inappropriately detained
without jeopardizing public safety.