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A New Juvenile Justice System : Total Reform for a Broken System.
""We know that the juvenile justice system is destructive, that it damages the children it is meant to help without making our communities safer. This compelling and innovative collection offers us a powerful new vision of a system that is focused on child well being, that serves both yout...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Families, Law, and Society.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Re-visioning Youth Justice; Part I. Setting the Agenda; 1. Child Well-Being: Toward a Fair and Equitable Public Safety Strategy for the New Century; Part II. Core Components; 2. A Silent Sea Change: The Deinstitutionalization Trend in Juvenile Justice; 3. Starting from a Different Place: The Missouri Model; 4. Doing Things Differently: Education as a Vehicle for Youth Transformation and Finland as a Model for Juvenile Justice Reform; 5. Delinquency, Due Process, and Mental Health: Presuming Youth Incompetency.
- Part III. Essential Perspectives6. Why Should We Treat Juvenile Offenders Differently than Adults? It's Not Because the Pie Isn't Fully Baked!; 7. Lost in Translation No More: Marketing Evidence-Based Policies for Reducing Juvenile Crime; 8. Building on Advocacy for Girls and LGBT Youth: A Foundation for Liberatory Laws, Policies, and Services for All Youth in the Juvenile Justice System; 9. Invest Upstream to Promote the Well-Being of LGBT Youth: Addressing Root Causes of Juvenile System Involvement; Part IV. Critical Actors.
- 10. Correcting Racial Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System: Refining Prosecutorial Discretion11. Helping Adolescents Succeed: Assuring a Meaningful Right to Counsel; 12. Fit to Be T(r)ied: Ending Juvenile Transfers and Reforming the Juvenile Justice System; 13. Applying J.D.B. v. North Carolina: Toward Ending Legal Fictions and Adopting Effective Police Questioning of Youth; Part V. Support Systems; 14. What If Your Child Were the Next One in the Door? Reimagining the Social Safety Net for Children, Families, and Communities.
- 15. Immigrant Children: Treating Children as Children, Regardless of Their Legal Status16. Crossover Youth: Youth Should Benefit When the State Is the Parent; 17. Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: New Models for School Discipline and Community Accountable Schools; 18. No More Closed Doors: Ending the Educational Exclusion of Formerly Incarcerated Youth; 19. Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Court: Boulders on the Road to Good Outcomes; About the Contributors; Index.