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Toward A Theory Of Procedural Justice For Juveniles, Tamar R. Birckhead Nov 2009

Toward A Theory Of Procedural Justice For Juveniles, Tamar R. Birckhead

Tamar R Birckhead

Courts and legislatures have long been reluctant to make use of the data, findings, and recommendations generated by other disciplines when determining questions of legal procedure affecting juveniles, particularly when the research has been produced by social scientists. However, given the United States Supreme Court’s recent invocation of developmental psychology in Roper v. Simmons, which invalidated the juvenile death penalty, there is reason to believe that such resistance is waning. In 2005 the Simmons Court found, inter alia, that based on research on adolescent development, juveniles are not as culpable as adults and, therefore, cannot be classified among the “worst …


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.


Eindrapport Voor Het Eerst Geplaatste Delinquente Minderjaringen En Recidive, Jenneke Christiaens, Tinne Geluyckens, Els Enhus, Els Dumortier Jan 2009

Eindrapport Voor Het Eerst Geplaatste Delinquente Minderjaringen En Recidive, Jenneke Christiaens, Tinne Geluyckens, Els Enhus, Els Dumortier

Jenneke Christiaens

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.


Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short Dec 2008

Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short

Donn Short

No abstract provided.


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 …


Arizona Juvenile Law Legal Research: Resources And Strategies, Adam R. Stephenson Dec 2008

Arizona Juvenile Law Legal Research: Resources And Strategies, Adam R. Stephenson

Adam Stephenson

This article aims to provide a practical resource not currently available to juvenile attorneys helping Arizona’s children and youth find permanency and support as they grow to adulthood. This article provides a comprehensive review of the history of Arizona juvenile law and available Arizona legal resources along with their usefulness and accessibility for the Arizona juvenile legal practitioner. It also provides assessments of the cost, best applications, overall utility and locations of the various resources around the state. The appendices include outlines of the Arizona case law regarding both delinquent and dependent juveniles.