Justice for kids : keeping kids out of the juvenile justice system / edited by Nancy E. Dowd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowd, Nancy E., 1949-

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

Families, law, and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Restorative justice.

United States.

Pre-trial intervention--United States.

Pre-trial intervention.

Restorative justice--United States.

Juvenile delinquency--United States--Prevention.

Juvenile delinquency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 314 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, developing deeper problems and or transferring into the adult criminal justice system. Justice for Kids is a volume of work by leading academics and activists that focuses on ways to intervene at the earliest possible point to rehabilitate and redirect to keep kids out of the system rather than to punish and drive kids deeper.

Justice for Kids presents a compelling argument for rethinking and restructuring the juvenile justice system as we know it. This unique collection explores the system's fault lines with respect to all children, and focuses in Particular on issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation that skew the system. Most importantly, it provides specific program initiatives that offer alternatives to our thinking about prevention and deterrence, with an ultimate focus on keeping kids out of the system altogether. Book jacket.

Contents:

Redefining the footprint of juvenile justice in America / Shay Bilchik

Delinquency and daycare / David R. Katner

Challenging the overuse of foster care and disrupting the path to delinquency and prison / Leslie Joan Harris

Preventing incarceration through special education and mental health collaboration for students with emotional and behavioral disorders / Joseph C. Gagnon and Brian R. Barber

Looking for air : excavating destructive educational and racial policies to build successful educational communities / Theresa Glennon

The black nationalist cure to disproportionate minority contact / Kenneth B. Nunn

Girl matters : unfinished work / Lawanda Ravoira and Vanessa Patino

Supporting queer youth / Sarah Valentine

Deterring serious and chronic offenders : research findings and policy thoughts

From the pathways to desistance study / Thomas A. Loughran ... [et al.]

"I want to talk to my mom " : the role of parents in police interrogation of juveniles / Stephen M. Reba, Randee J. Waldman, and Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

Moving beyond exclusion : integrating restorative practices and impacting school

Culture in denver public schools / Thalia N.C. González and Benjamin Cairns

The line of prevention / Khary Lazarre-White

What it takes to transform a school inside a juvenile justice facility : the story of the Maya Angelou Academy / David Domenici and James Forman, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

756641618

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.