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Web Of Incarceration: School-Based Probation, Jyoti Nanda
Web Of Incarceration: School-Based Probation, Jyoti Nanda
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Close to three quarters of a million cases flow through the United States’ juvenile justice system annually. Juvenile probation is the most commonly utilized form of sentencing, yet juvenile probation has not been the focus of sustained research or analysis. This Article focuses on School-Based Probation, a type of juvenile probation program that was created to enroll youth before a criminal charge has been filed. Described by its proponents as a “voluntarily probation” program, pre-delinquent, or “at-risk,” youth are identified by on-site school probation officers and enrolled in a supervised program. Deemed to be problematic by many jurisdictions, this Article …
Blind Discretion: Girls Of Color & Delinquency In The Juvenile Justice System, Jyoti Nanda
Blind Discretion: Girls Of Color & Delinquency In The Juvenile Justice System, Jyoti Nanda
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The juvenile justice system was designed to empower its decisionmakers with a wide grant of discretion in hopes of better addressing youth in a more individualistic and holistic, and therefore more effective, manner. Unfortunately for girls of color in the system, this discretionary charter given to police, probation officers, and especially judges has operated without sufficiently acknowledging and addressing their unique position. Indeed, the dearth of adequate gender/race intersectional analysis in the research and the stark absence of significant system tools directed at the specific characteristics of and circumstances faced by girls of color have tracked alarming trends such as …
Special Education And The Juvenile Justice System, Us Department Of Justice
Special Education And The Juvenile Justice System, Us Department Of Justice
Juvenile Justice Bulletin
No abstract provided.
System Change Through State Challenge Activities: Approaches And Products, Us Department Of Justice
System Change Through State Challenge Activities: Approaches And Products, Us Department Of Justice
Juvenile Justice Bulletin
No abstract provided.