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Featured Speaker, Girls In The United States Justice System, Francine Sherman Nov 2009

Featured Speaker, Girls In The United States Justice System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Featured Speaker, Social Welfare V. Social Control: Juvenile Justice In The United States, Francine Sherman Nov 2009

Featured Speaker, Social Welfare V. Social Control: Juvenile Justice In The United States, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Massachusetts Department Of Youth Services, Spectrum Girls Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman Jul 2009

Massachusetts Department Of Youth Services, Spectrum Girls Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Dys Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman Jul 2009

Dys Facility Self-Assessment Team Member, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Moderator, Clark County Girls Symposium On Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Francine Sherman Jul 2009

Moderator, Clark County Girls Symposium On Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Assisted Las Vegas and surrounding county to reduce the use of detention for girls and address the needs of sexually exploited girls.


Massachusetts Health Passport Project Evaluation Final Report, Francine Jacobs, Rachel Oliveri, Jesica Greenston, Claudia Miranda-Julian Jun 2009

Massachusetts Health Passport Project Evaluation Final Report, Francine Jacobs, Rachel Oliveri, Jesica Greenston, Claudia Miranda-Julian

Francine T. Sherman

Prepared for Francine Sherman, Esq., Director, Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School. Adapted from the Executive Summary: The Massachusetts Health Passport Project (MHPP) began in April 2004, as a pilot program of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School under the direction of Francine Sherman, Esq. The program was originally called the Girls’ Health Passport Project (GHPP) and was designed to address the unmet health needs and gaps in health care services for girls committed to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) and re-entering their communities from DYS assessment and treatment facilities. An …


Speaker, Girls In The United States Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman May 2009

Speaker, Girls In The United States Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Clark County, Nevada, Consultant, 2007, Francine Sherman Dec 2008

Clark County, Nevada, Consultant, 2007, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Assisted Las Vegas and surrounding county to reduce the use of detention for girls and address the needs of sexually exploited girls.


Reframing The Response: Girls In The Juvenile Justice System And Domestic Violence, Francine Sherman Dec 2008

Reframing The Response: Girls In The Juvenile Justice System And Domestic Violence, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

This article provides an overview of the role gender plays in juvenile justice processing. It reviews national data on girls’ arrest patterns and links those patterns to girls’ underlying needs and trauma histories. The article then focuses on the increase in arrests of girls for domestic assaults and describes the experience of Washoe County, Nevada, where girls were detained disproportionately for domestic battery as a result of a mandatory detention law. The article goes on to describe Nevada’s successful effort to amend that law to increase discretion and mandate family services and the resulting improvements in services to girls experiencing …