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The Evolution Of Youth As An Excuse: Striking A Balance Between The Interest Of Public Safety And The Principle That Kids Are Kids, Ashley A. Hughes Mar 2014

The Evolution Of Youth As An Excuse: Striking A Balance Between The Interest Of Public Safety And The Principle That Kids Are Kids, Ashley A. Hughes

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Best Interest Is The Child: A Historical Philosophy For Modern Issues, Lahny R. Silva Mar 2014

The Best Interest Is The Child: A Historical Philosophy For Modern Issues, Lahny R. Silva

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

A little over a century after the creation of the first juvenile court in America, the states and the federal government continue to try to find an effective and practical solution to juvenile delinquency. Beginning with the “Best Interest of the Child Standard” in 1899, juvenile justice policy has evolved into a mixed bag of philosophies. State statutes littered with “Best Interest” rhetoric, have interestingly resulted in state policies that are retributive in nature and disproportionately affect minority communities. The disconnect between theory and practice is the product of decades of socio-political influence on juvenile justice policy as well as …


Training Curriculum: Responding To Sexual Abuse Of Youth In Custody: Addressing The Needs Of Boys, Girls, And Gender Nonconforming Youth - Notification Of Curriculum Use (Facilitator’S Guide), Brenda V. Smith, Jaime M. Yarussi, Rebecca Heinsen, Melissa C. Loomis, Caleb J. Bess, Tonya Davis, Lisa Capers, Kevin Dubose, Takiya Wheeler, Dr. Robert Bidwell Feb 2014

Training Curriculum: Responding To Sexual Abuse Of Youth In Custody: Addressing The Needs Of Boys, Girls, And Gender Nonconforming Youth - Notification Of Curriculum Use (Facilitator’S Guide), Brenda V. Smith, Jaime M. Yarussi, Rebecca Heinsen, Melissa C. Loomis, Caleb J. Bess, Tonya Davis, Lisa Capers, Kevin Dubose, Takiya Wheeler, Dr. Robert Bidwell

Research Reports & White Papers

The enclosed Responding to Sexual Abuse of Youth in Custody: Addressing the Needs of Boys, Girls, and Gender Nonconforming Youth curriculum was developed by the Project on Addressing Prison Rape at American University, Washington College of Law as part of contract deliverables for the National PREA Resource Center (PRC), a cooperative agreement between the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards served as the basis for the curriculum’s content and development with the goal of the Responding to Sexual Abuse of Youth in Custody: Addressing the …


Strengthening Families And Communities To Prevent Youth Violence: A Public Health Approach, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Lauren Feig, Franklin Cosey-Gay, Molly Coeling Jan 2014

Strengthening Families And Communities To Prevent Youth Violence: A Public Health Approach, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Lauren Feig, Franklin Cosey-Gay, Molly Coeling

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Chapter 919: Audrie’S Law Dramatically Increases The Punishment For Rape Of A Defenseless Victim, Andrew Pinasco Jan 2014

Chapter 919: Audrie’S Law Dramatically Increases The Punishment For Rape Of A Defenseless Victim, Andrew Pinasco

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chapter 797: Un-Handcuffing Minors From The Gang Life, Dacia Anderson Jan 2014

Chapter 797: Un-Handcuffing Minors From The Gang Life, Dacia Anderson

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Suggested Minor Refinement Of Miller V. Alabama, Devina Douglas Jan 2014

A Suggested Minor Refinement Of Miller V. Alabama, Devina Douglas

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Evolution And Unintended Consequences Of Legal Responses To Childhood Sexual Abuse: Seeking Justice And Prevention, Alexandra Hunstein Roffman Jan 2014

The Evolution And Unintended Consequences Of Legal Responses To Childhood Sexual Abuse: Seeking Justice And Prevention, Alexandra Hunstein Roffman

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Around The World: A Comparison Of Approaches To Gun Homicides In The United States And Japan, Shay Raoofi Jan 2014

Around The World: A Comparison Of Approaches To Gun Homicides In The United States And Japan, Shay Raoofi

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Gun Violence Among Youth In Chicago, Amanda Crews Slezak Jan 2014

Introduction: Gun Violence Among Youth In Chicago, Amanda Crews Slezak

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Opposing Viewpoints: Criminal Statutes Of Limitations In Childhood Sexual Abuse Cases, Victoria Carmona Jan 2014

Opposing Viewpoints: Criminal Statutes Of Limitations In Childhood Sexual Abuse Cases, Victoria Carmona

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Through A Child’S Eyes: Gun Violence Among Youth In Chicago, Melissa Anderson Jan 2014

Through A Child’S Eyes: Gun Violence Among Youth In Chicago, Melissa Anderson

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Statistically Speaking: Deepening Our Understanding Of Fatal Childhood Maltreatment, Sarah Silins Jan 2014

Statistically Speaking: Deepening Our Understanding Of Fatal Childhood Maltreatment, Sarah Silins

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.


Challenging Discrimination Of Lgbt Youth In Juvenile Justice: Encouraging The Legal Strategy Of Selective Prosecution Motions, Alanna Holt Jan 2014

Challenging Discrimination Of Lgbt Youth In Juvenile Justice: Encouraging The Legal Strategy Of Selective Prosecution Motions, Alanna Holt

Criminal Law Practitioner

No abstract provided.


Stop Presumptive Transfers: How Forcing Juveniles To Prove They Should Remain In The Juvenile Justice System Is Inconsistent With Roper V. Simmons & Graham V. Florida, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 365 (2014), Rachel Fugett Jan 2014

Stop Presumptive Transfers: How Forcing Juveniles To Prove They Should Remain In The Juvenile Justice System Is Inconsistent With Roper V. Simmons & Graham V. Florida, 48 J. Marshall L. Rev. 365 (2014), Rachel Fugett

UIC Law Review

Overly expansive juvenile transfer laws are inconsistent with the Court’s reasoning because their primary objective is to transfer juveniles into the adult criminal justice system solely for the purpose of punishing and sentencing them like adults. In so doing, expansive juvenile transfer laws, more often than not, largely ignore a juvenile’s diminished culpability and greater capacity for change.


The Effects Of The Lubanga Case On Understanding And Preventing Child Soldiering, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2014

The Effects Of The Lubanga Case On Understanding And Preventing Child Soldiering, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

On March 14, 2012, a trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a rebel leader from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for child-soldier-related crimes. Some months later, Lubanga was sentenced to a prison term of fourteen years. On August 7, 2012, an ICC trial chamber issued its decision regarding the principles and procedures to be applied to reparations in the Lubanga case. This Article unpacks the relationships between the Lubanga proceedings and how the international community conceptualizes, and strives to prevent, child soldiering. This Article contends that the Lubanga proceedings reinforce, and incubate, a …


Justice Policy Reform For High-Risk Juveniles: Using Science To Achieve Large-Scale Crime Reduction, Jennifer L. Skeem, Elizabeth S. Scott, Edward Mulvey Jan 2014

Justice Policy Reform For High-Risk Juveniles: Using Science To Achieve Large-Scale Crime Reduction, Jennifer L. Skeem, Elizabeth S. Scott, Edward Mulvey

Faculty Scholarship

After a distinctly punitive era, a period of remarkable reform in juvenile crime regulation has begun. Practical urgency has fueled interest in both crime reduction and research on the prediction and malleability of criminal behavior. In this rapidly changing context, high-risk youth – the small proportion of the population where crime is concentrated – present a conundrum. Research indicates that these are precisely the individuals to intensively treat to maximize crime reduction, but there are both real and imagined barriers to doing so. Institutional placement or criminal court processing can exclude these youths from interventions that would better protect public …


Kidnapping Incorporated: The Unregulated Youth-Transportation Industry And The Potential For Abuse, Ira Robbins Jan 2014

Kidnapping Incorporated: The Unregulated Youth-Transportation Industry And The Potential For Abuse, Ira Robbins

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Strangers come into a child's room in the middle of the night, drag her kicking and screaming into a van, apply handcuffs, and drive her to a behavior modification facility at a distant location. What sounds like a clear-cut case of kidnapping is complicated by the fact that the child's parents not only authorized this intervention, but also paid for it. This scarcely publicized practice-known as the youth-transportation industry-operates on the fringes of existing law. The law generally presumes that parents have almost unlimited authority over their children, but the youth-transportation industry has never been closely examined regarding exactly what …


Pursuing Justice For The Child: The Forgotten Women Of In Re Gault, David S. Tanenhaus Jan 2014

Pursuing Justice For The Child: The Forgotten Women Of In Re Gault, David S. Tanenhaus

Scholarly Works

In this article, I first draw on my recent book The Constitutional Rights of Children to introduce the facts of the case and place the case in the larger context of the history of American juvenile justice. I then focus specifically on the role of four remarkable women in the history of this landmark decision: Marjorie Gault, Gerald's mother; Amelia Lewis, Gerald's lawyer; Lorna Lockwood, an Arizona lawyer who became the first woman to serve as the Chief Justice of a State Supreme Court; and Getrude "Traute" Mainzer, who assisted in the litigation of Gerald's case before the U.S. Supreme …


Kids Can Change: Reforming South Dakota’S Juvenile Transfer Law To Rehabilitate Children And Protect Public Safety, Wendy Hess Jan 2014

Kids Can Change: Reforming South Dakota’S Juvenile Transfer Law To Rehabilitate Children And Protect Public Safety, Wendy Hess

Faculty Publications

South Dakota, like many other states, permits adult criminal prosecution, sentencing, and imprisonment of certain minors who commit a crime. The mechanism which allows prosecution of a child as an adult is referred to as “juvenile transfer,” because the juvenile court’s jurisdiction over the child is transferred to the adult criminal court. The article discusses how the juvenile transfer mechanism developed — both generally and in South Dakota — as well as how it operates today. The author summarizes research findings about the efficacy and fairness of juvenile transfer. Harsh criminal consequences for juveniles are increasingly disfavored as we learn …


Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer Jan 2014

Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer

Utah Law Review

Children-in-prison programs reflect a commendable sympathy for the lifelong disadvantage and deprivation that most prison inmates have suffered and a wish to transform their lives. But acting primarily on the basis of that sympathy and wish, rather than focusing realistically on what is truly best for children, is a moral and policy mistake. Available evidence suggests that the extreme form of connecting incarcerated birth parents with their offspring, prison nurseries, harms the great majority of those children, especially when the impact is compared to the life the children might have had if adopted immediately after birth. Advocacy for this practice …


The Undersigned Attorney Hereby Certifies -- The Washington Supreme Court Rule On Standards And Its Implications, Justice Sheryl Gordon Mccloud, Justice Susan Owens, Marc Boman, Joanne Moore Nov 2013

The Undersigned Attorney Hereby Certifies -- The Washington Supreme Court Rule On Standards And Its Implications, Justice Sheryl Gordon Mccloud, Justice Susan Owens, Marc Boman, Joanne Moore

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


G Forces: Gideon V. Wainwright And Matthew Adler's Move Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Janet Moore Nov 2013

G Forces: Gideon V. Wainwright And Matthew Adler's Move Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Janet Moore

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Dark Medicine: How The National Research Act Has Failed To Address Racist Practices In Biomedical Experiments Targeting The African-American Community, Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan Nov 2013

Dark Medicine: How The National Research Act Has Failed To Address Racist Practices In Biomedical Experiments Targeting The African-American Community, Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Do We Have It Right This Time? An Analysis Of The Accomplishments And Shortcomings Of Washington's Indian Child Welfare Act, Karen Gray Young Nov 2013

Do We Have It Right This Time? An Analysis Of The Accomplishments And Shortcomings Of Washington's Indian Child Welfare Act, Karen Gray Young

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Securing Food Justice, Sovereignty & Sustainability In The Face Of The Food Safety Modernization Act (Fsma), Eve Kerber Nov 2013

Securing Food Justice, Sovereignty & Sustainability In The Face Of The Food Safety Modernization Act (Fsma), Eve Kerber

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Driving While License Suspended - Third Degree, A Framework For Requesting Alternative Sentences, Sahar Fathi Nov 2013

Driving While License Suspended - Third Degree, A Framework For Requesting Alternative Sentences, Sahar Fathi

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


About The Authors Nov 2013

About The Authors

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Nov 2013

Table Of Contents

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Jacqueline Mcmurtrie Nov 2013

Introduction, Jacqueline Mcmurtrie

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.