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Gender Injustice, Francine Sherman Nov 2015

Gender Injustice, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

In this keynote address Professor Sherman related gender injustice national findings to the state of juvenile justice for girls in Oregon.


Gender Injustice And Girls In Massachusetts, Francine Sherman Oct 2015

Gender Injustice And Girls In Massachusetts, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Keynote address at the MCLE Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Conference.


Current Issues In State Law: How Policy Advocacy Can Benefit Girls, Francine Sherman Oct 2015

Current Issues In State Law: How Policy Advocacy Can Benefit Girls, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Provided overview material for national Roundtable of organizations working with girls in the juvenile justice system for the National Girls Initiative and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).


Real-Time Data Integration To Advance Research And Policy For Girls In The Justice And Related Public Systems, Francine Sherman Sep 2015

Real-Time Data Integration To Advance Research And Policy For Girls In The Justice And Related Public Systems, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

For an audience of national justice system leaders Professor Sherman addressed the ways real-time data integration could be used to advance research and policy for girls in the justice and related public systems.


Gender And De-Incarceration, Francine Sherman Sep 2015

Gender And De-Incarceration, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Related Gender Injustice findings to roundtable national strategy discussion on youth de-incarceration.


Gender And Race Disparities In The Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman Aug 2015

Gender And Race Disparities In The Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Provided an overview of the juvenile justice process and intersectional (gender and race) disparities.


Appropriate System Responses To Human Sex Trafficking, Francine Sherman Aug 2015

Appropriate System Responses To Human Sex Trafficking, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Panel addressed ways that detention reform jurisdictions can respond to sex trafficking without detention. At the same conference, Professor Sherman also participated in a panel called "Gender Injustice: Implementing System Reform for Girls."


Gender Injustice, Francine Sherman Jul 2015

Gender Injustice, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Provided an overview of gender injustice findings and implications for ten federal grant innovation awardee organizations.


Presenter, Juvenile Justice Leadership Network, Francine Sherman Apr 2015

Presenter, Juvenile Justice Leadership Network, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Panelist, Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation On Girls In The Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman Apr 2015

Panelist, Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation On Girls In The Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Overview: Girls And The Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman Jan 2015

Overview: Girls And The Juvenile Justice System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Presented on Policy for Girls and Young Women in the juvenile justice system.


Organizer And Presenter, Current Challenges In Detention Reform For Girls, Francine Sherman Jun 2014

Organizer And Presenter, Current Challenges In Detention Reform For Girls, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Roundtable Participant, High Risk Girls In High Risk Settings: What Have We Learned, What's Next, Francine Sherman May 2014

Roundtable Participant, High Risk Girls In High Risk Settings: What Have We Learned, What's Next, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Juvenile Justice Girls: Precursors, Outcomes, And Treatment Needs, Francine Sherman Mar 2014

Juvenile Justice Girls: Precursors, Outcomes, And Treatment Needs, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Served as legal discussant on systems for criminology and psychology researchers on causes and trajectories for girls in the juvenile justice system.


Panelist, "A Trauma-Informed Approach To Girls: What It Is, Why Its Needed", Francine Sherman Nov 2013

Panelist, "A Trauma-Informed Approach To Girls: What It Is, Why Its Needed", Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Moderator, Youth In Prison: The Reality Of The System, Francine Sherman Apr 2013

Moderator, Youth In Prison: The Reality Of The System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

On April 30, 2013, Professor Sherman served as the moderator for the Youth in Prison: The Reality of the System at Boston College. The panel discussed the realities of the prison system and efforts being implemented to create positive change.


Partcipant, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-Site Conference, Francine Sherman Apr 2013

Partcipant, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-Site Conference, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Professor Sherman participated in two workshops, Reducing Disparities at the Intersection of Gender, Race and Ethnicity and Eliminating the Use of Detention for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children, at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-site Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.


Speaker, Workshop Organizer, Moderator And Presenter, Francine Sherman Dec 2012

Speaker, Workshop Organizer, Moderator And Presenter, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Professor Sherman has served as a Speaker, Workshop Organizer, Moderator, and Presenter for a range of workshops on topics related to detention reform and girls at the Annie E. Casey Foundation Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Annual Conferences since 2000.


Panelist, Stop The Pipeline To Prison: Create Educational Opportunities, Jobs And Wealth, Francine Sherman Nov 2012

Panelist, Stop The Pipeline To Prison: Create Educational Opportunities, Jobs And Wealth, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Advisory Board Member, Francine Sherman Jun 2012

Advisory Board Member, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Visiting Lecturer, Francine Sherman Apr 2012

Visiting Lecturer, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Testimony, Institute Of Medicine Workshops: Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children/Sex Trafficking, Francine Sherman Feb 2012

Testimony, Institute Of Medicine Workshops: Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children/Sex Trafficking, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Moderator And Speaker, The Legal Lives Of Girls, Francine Sherman Feb 2012

Moderator And Speaker, The Legal Lives Of Girls, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Symposium Speaker, Overpoliced And Underprotected: Women, Race And Criminalization, Francine Sherman Jan 2012

Symposium Speaker, Overpoliced And Underprotected: Women, Race And Criminalization, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Member, Board Of Directors, Francine Sherman Dec 2011

Member, Board Of Directors, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Technical Assistance Provider, Francine Sherman Dec 2011

Technical Assistance Provider, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Authored Detention Reform and Girls: Challenges and Solutions: JDAI Pathway #13 (2005) and Making Detention Reform Work for Girls: JDAI Practice Guide #5 (2012), provide technical assistance to JDAI sites nationally to reduce detention for girls and improve their conditions of confinement, assess jurisdictions’ use of detention for girls, regularly organize and present JDAI workshops.


Member, National Advisory Committee On Violence Against Women, Francine Sherman Dec 2011

Member, National Advisory Committee On Violence Against Women, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Appointed by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to advise Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services on how to improve U.S. response to violence against women with a focus on children and teens. Served as Chair of Sub-Committee on Prevention and Social Change. (Report forthcoming, 2012).


Moderator, Questions Of Social Justice, Francine Sherman Oct 2011

Moderator, Questions Of Social Justice, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Featured Speaker, The Legal Lives Of Girls, Francine Sherman Oct 2011

Featured Speaker, The Legal Lives Of Girls, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.


Award Recipient, Germaine Lawrence Women Of Excellence, Francine Sherman Oct 2010

Award Recipient, Germaine Lawrence Women Of Excellence, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

No abstract provided.