More Than Troubling: The Alarming Absence of ‘Troubled Teen Industry’ Regulation and Proposals for Reform

Authors

Morgan Rubino

Document Type

Note

Abstract

This Note will advocate for immediate and wide-reaching legislative action on juvenile residential treatment. Part I will provide a brief history of the origins of the Troubled Teen Industry ("TTI") and the most common types of facilities operating today. Part II will analyze some of the limited state legislation on the TTI, along with the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act pending before Congress. Finally, Part III will lay out the most pressing injustices and abuses that arise out of the TTI and argue that an integrated framework of local and federal legislation, including the adoption of state bills of rights for youth in residential treatment, is needed to begin combating this institutionalized child abuse.

Recommended Citation

Morgan Rubino, More Than Troubling: The Alarming Absence of ‘Troubled Teen Industry’ Regulation and Proposals for Reform, 50 J. Legis. 429 (2024).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/jleg/vol50/iss2/6