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Schiff-Cárdenas Crime Prevention Act Of 2000 (Ab 1913): Reports From Counties On Implementation, Assembly Select Committee On Juvenile Justice
Schiff-Cárdenas Crime Prevention Act Of 2000 (Ab 1913): Reports From Counties On Implementation, Assembly Select Committee On Juvenile Justice
California Assembly
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Children Of Color With Mental Health Problems: Stuck In All The Wrong Places, Susan P. Leviton
Children Of Color With Mental Health Problems: Stuck In All The Wrong Places, Susan P. Leviton
Faculty Scholarship
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The Child As Other: Race And Differential Treatment In The Juvenile Justice System, Kenneth B. Nunn
The Child As Other: Race And Differential Treatment In The Juvenile Justice System, Kenneth B. Nunn
UF Law Faculty Publications
The juvenile justice system is rife with disparities between white and non-white children. African American children are not the only ones who may be treated as the "other" inthe juvenile justice system. Latino, Native American, Asian, and even white children may be "othered" in the appropriate social context. This article focuses on African American children and their condition, because it is exemplary of how all children who are perceived as children of the "other" are treated and because, in some ways, the treatment of African American children, in a bipolar racial hierarchy, is unique.
This Will Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You: Social And Legal Consequences Of Criminalizing Delinquency, Jeffrey Fagan
This Will Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You: Social And Legal Consequences Of Criminalizing Delinquency, Jeffrey Fagan
Faculty Scholarship
What happens to adolescents once placed in the criminal justice system and the potential violations of human rights that ensue is the focus of this essay. The pace of change, the severity of the new laws, the potential for unintended negative outcomes, and the empirical reality of adult punishment of juvenile offenders creates new urgency to these questions. Unfortunately, there has been little analysis of the comparative effects of statutes and administrative laws that relocate juvenile offenders to the adult court, and there has been virtually no research on the efficacy, impact and consequences of sentencing juveniles as adults. There …