Justice for Kids : : Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System / / ed. by Nancy E. Dowd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barber, Brian R.,; Bennett Woodhouse, Barbara,; Bilchik, Shay,; Cairns, Benjamin,; Domenici, David,; Dowd, Nancy E.,; Fagan, Jeffrey,; Forman Jr., James,; Gagnon, Joseph C.,; Glennon, Theresa,; González, Thalia N. C.,; Harris, Leslie Joan,; Katner, David R.,; Lazarre-White, Khary,; Loughran, Thomas A.,; Mulvey, Edward P.,; Nunn, Kenneth B.,; Patino, Vanessa,; Piquero, Alex R.,; Ravoira, Lawanda,; Reba, Stephen M.,; Valentine, Sarah,; Waldman, Randee J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dowd, Nancy E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Families, Law, and Society ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Justice for Kids -- 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 -- II. Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation -- 6. The Black Nationalist Cure to Disproportionate Minority Contact -- 7. Girl Matters -- 8. Supporting Queer Youth -- III. Legal Socialization and Policing -- 9. Deterring Serious and Chronic Offenders -- 10. “I Want to Talk to My Mom” -- 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