Justice for Kids (eBook)

Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System

Nancy E. Dowd (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-4408-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Preface  Introduction Part I System Change 1 Redefining the Footprint of Juvenile Justice in America  2 Delinquency and Daycare  3 Challenging the Overuse of Foster Care and Disrupting the Path to Delinquency and Prison 4 Preventing Incarceration through Special Education and Mental Health Collaboration for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 5 Looking for Air: Excavating Destructive Educational and Racial Policies to Build Successful School CommunitiesPart II Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation 6 The Black Nationalist Cure to Disproportionate Minority Contact 7 Girl Matters: Unfinished Work 8 Supporting Queer Youth Part III Legal Socialization and Policing 9 Deterring Serious and Chronic Offenders 10 “I Want to Talk to My Mom”Part IV Model Programs 11 Moving beyond Exclusion 12 The Line of Prevention  13 What It Takes to Transform a School inside a Juvenile Justice  Facility About the Contributors Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Families, Law, and Society
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-8147-4408-7 / 0814744087
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4408-6 / 9780814744086