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Changing Lives Through Literature: Implementation & Evaluation, Jackie Lageson, Russell Schutt
Changing Lives Through Literature: Implementation & Evaluation, Jackie Lageson, Russell Schutt
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
The CLTL program at the Juvenile probation department works with court involved youth between the ages of 12 – 19 years of age. The program is designed to explore prosocial character themes through the use of literature. The program facilitators select short stories, poems, music lyrics, and/or short films that center around themes for example, respect, love, education, violence, family, friendship, leadership, and the like. The judge, probation officer, facilitators and youth read the literature together, then discuss what the author is trying to get across. Then the level of discussion shifts to what reading do they identify with personally …
Breaking The Cycle Of Violence - Engaged Scholarship, Juvenile Delinquency Course: Sociology 362 – Spring 2014, Civic Engagement Scholars Initiative, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Breaking The Cycle Of Violence - Engaged Scholarship, Juvenile Delinquency Course: Sociology 362 – Spring 2014, Civic Engagement Scholars Initiative, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
This course, retooled through the CESI program, underscores the programmatic and policy responses to the issues presented. Students explore the actionable options through partnering with a community partner, allowing a reciprocal process of community work contextualizing the classroom and the classroom informing the community partner.
The Racial History Of Juvenile Justice, Geoff K. Ward
The Racial History Of Juvenile Justice, Geoff K. Ward
Trotter Review
In October 2007, the Boston chapter of the NAACP hosted a roundtable on the Niagara Movement. In honor of the Niagara Movement meeting in Boston in 1907, the NAACP and the Trotter Institute collaborated on a series of events marking the centennial of the gathering Niagara men and women in Boston, the largest of five annual meetings of the Niagara Movement and the first to include women as voting delegates. The roundtable, like the 1907 Niagara Movement meeting, was held in Faneuil Hall. The inclusion of women as full participants in the Niagara Movement speaks to the force and significance …
The United Nations And The Magna Carta For Children, Winston E. Langley
The United Nations And The Magna Carta For Children, Winston E. Langley
John M. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Publications
The impulse that invited the preparation of this book is one which is linked to the convergence of a number of factors bearing on my interest in human rights. First, the brutality visited on children during World War II has had an abiding negative effect on my sense of what is possible in human conduct. Second, I am persuaded that children are not simply the means by which human societies are continued, but, as well, the potential source of moral revitalization and transformation for those societies. Third, I recognize that the human rights movement, which followed World War II, holds …
New Directions In Juvenile Justice: School-Based Crime Prevention, Paul F. Walsh Jr.
New Directions In Juvenile Justice: School-Based Crime Prevention, Paul F. Walsh Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article considers the role of the district attorney as a catalyst for aggressive school-based educational programs to help young people avoid trouble with the legal system. Walsh argues that while it may be unfair to burden classroom teachers with additional responsibilities concerning drug and alcohol issues, school is the logical site at which to provide these services and that a district attorney is well suited to act as a catalyst and resource for providing these additional services.