A New Juvenile Justice System : : Total Reform for a Broken System / / ed. by Nancy E. Dowd.

A New Juvenile Justice System aims at nothing less than a complete reform of the existing system: not minor change or even significant overhaul, but the replacement of the existing system with a different vision. The authors in this volume-academics, activists, researchers, and those who serve in th...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Families, Law, and Society ; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Perspectives
  • 6 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 Discretion
  • 11 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 Status
  • 16 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