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2009

Juvenile justice

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Juvenile Justice: The Fourth Option, Christopher Slobogin Feb 2009

Juvenile Justice: The Fourth Option, Christopher Slobogin

Christopher Slobogin

The current eclectic mix of solutions to the juvenile crime problem is insufficiently conceptualized and beholden to myths about youth, the crimes they commit, and effective means of responding to their problems. The dominant punitive approach to juvenile justice, modeled on the adult criminal justice system, either ignores or misapplies current knowledge about the causes of juvenile crime and the means of reducing it. But the rehabilitative vision that motivated the progenitors of the juvenile court errs in the other direction, by allowing the state to assert its police power even over those who are innocent of crime. The most …

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The Forgotten Fifth: Rural Youth And Substance Abuse, Lisa R. Pruitt Jan 2009

The Forgotten Fifth: Rural Youth And Substance Abuse, Lisa R. Pruitt

Lisa R Pruitt

This Article seeks to raise the visibility of the roughly twenty percent of the U.S. population who live in rural places—an often forgotten fifth—in relation to the particular challenges presented by adolescent substance abuse. Despite popular notions that substance abuse is essentially an urban phenomenon, recent data demonstrate that it is also a significant problem in rural America. Rural youth now abuse most substances, including alcohol and tobacco, at higher rates and at younger ages than their urban peers.

The Article assesses the social, economic and spatial milieu in which rural adolescent substance abuse has burgeoned. Some features of some …

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