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Investigating Exoneration Patterns Among Juveniles, Kristin Mahan 2025 East Tennessee State University

Investigating Exoneration Patterns Among Juveniles, Kristin Mahan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Exoneration from crime has been studied among adults, but exoneration of juveniles (i.e., persons under age 18) has not been analyzed as a separate entity, despite distinct legal systems and developmental considerations. Wrongful conviction, while not always indicative of innocence, devastates lives of convicted individuals and their families, while increasing public mistrust and sometimes failing to convict truly guilty individuals. This devastation, as well as vulnerability to wrongful conviction, is significantly increased for youth who miss out on crucial developmental years, milestones, and opportunities.

In the current study, I examined differing and intersecting contributors (i.e., individual characteristics, crime characteristics, legal …


Restorative Justice Initiatives In Marin County: Mitigating The Impacts Of The School-To-Prison Pipeline On Youth, Gina Dudley 2025 Dominican University of California

Restorative Justice Initiatives In Marin County: Mitigating The Impacts Of The School-To-Prison Pipeline On Youth, Gina Dudley

Social Justice | Senior Theses

My senior thesis project delves into Restorative Justice's role in addressing the school-to-prison pipeline in Marin County. Restorative Justice prioritizes repairing the harm caused by crime to individuals, relationships, and communities, advocating for offenders to take responsibility and make amends rather than solely facing punishment (Restorative Justice Exchange, 2022). My capstone aims to pinpoint factors driving student exclusion from schools and subsequent entanglement in the legal system while highlighting how restorative approaches can prevent such outcomes. Additionally, it discusses the benefits of removing police officers from schools and reducing reliance on law enforcement within educational settings. My research will use …


Kindly Remove My Child From The Bubble Wrap - Analyzing Childress V. Madison County And Why Tennessee Courts Should Enforce Parental Pre-Injury Liability Concerns, Joshua D. Arters, Ben M. Rose 2024 University of Tennessee College of Law

Kindly Remove My Child From The Bubble Wrap - Analyzing Childress V. Madison County And Why Tennessee Courts Should Enforce Parental Pre-Injury Liability Concerns, Joshua D. Arters, Ben M. Rose

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

“I overstepped my parental boundaries at the Aiguille Rock Climbing Center . . . . I signed a waiver absolving it of blame if my daughter pulled a Humpty Dumpty from the top of a wall. The Florida Supreme Court recently ruled I didn't have that right. I can make all kinds of decisions for my girl, including life-and-death calls on medical care. But I can’t judge the risk she will take scaling a 20-foot wall and decide it is so miniscule that I’m willing to sign a waiver so she can do it—not even if I’m holding the safety …


In Re: Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 40a No. M2009-01926-Sc-Rl2-Rl, The Supreme Court of Tennessee 2024 University of Tennessee College of Law

In Re: Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 40a No. M2009-01926-Sc-Rl2-Rl, The Supreme Court Of Tennessee

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


No Champion For Children: Tennessee's Rule 40a And The Appointment Of Guardians Ad Litem In Custody Proceedings, Austin Elizabeth Kupke 2024 University of Tennessee College of Law

No Champion For Children: Tennessee's Rule 40a And The Appointment Of Guardians Ad Litem In Custody Proceedings, Austin Elizabeth Kupke

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Is Parenting Authority A Usurpation Of Judicial Authority? Harmonizing Authority For, Benefits Of, And Limitations On This Legal-Psychological Hybrid, Joi T. Montiel 2024 Faulkner University

Is Parenting Authority A Usurpation Of Judicial Authority? Harmonizing Authority For, Benefits Of, And Limitations On This Legal-Psychological Hybrid, Joi T. Montiel

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

A “Parenting Coordinator” assists high-conflict parents in resolving disputes that arise in the parents’ efforts to jointly parent their children after a divorce. The Parenting Coordinator simultaneously educates the parents so as to minimize the degree and frequency of future conflict. While Parenting Coordination is not mediation or arbitration, it is also not counseling. Instead, Parenting Coordination is a “legal-psychological hybrid.” A trial court’s delegation to one in this hybrid role the power to determine a fit parent’s access to her child is arguably an improper delegation of judicial authority. While thirteen states have comprehensive schemes setting out their Parenting …


Panel Discussion 4: Best Practices In Representing Children In Court, Timothy Irwin, Carlton Lewis, Dwight Stokes 2024 University of Tennessee College of Law

Panel Discussion 4: Best Practices In Representing Children In Court, Timothy Irwin, Carlton Lewis, Dwight Stokes

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


Rehabilitation Over Retribution: Rethinking Juvenile Justice For Traumatized Youth, Brian L. Traub 2024 University of Cincinnati College of Law

Rehabilitation Over Retribution: Rethinking Juvenile Justice For Traumatized Youth, Brian L. Traub

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reforming Nova Scotia's Secure Care Model: Gender Bias And Calls To Action, Abby Metcalf 2024 Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Reforming Nova Scotia's Secure Care Model: Gender Bias And Calls To Action, Abby Metcalf

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

The following paper is a critical analysis of Nova Scotia’s secure care model which is legislated under ss. 55-56 of the Children and Family Services Act. Under these provisions, children who are in the care of the Minister of Community Services or Mi’kmaw Family & Children’s Services of Nova Scotia may be confined against their will at the Wood Street Centre in Truro, Nova Scotia. This paper makes two critical arguments. The first is that the legislation concerning secure care in this province is notably overbroad, leaving children who are in crisis vulnerable to being subjected to what is …


A Global Comparison Of Communication Intervention Strategies For Justice-Involved Youth, Sophia Janeiro Martinez 2024 Old Dominion University

A Global Comparison Of Communication Intervention Strategies For Justice-Involved Youth, Sophia Janeiro Martinez

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Purpose: This paper explores the intricate relationship between communication disorders and delinquent youth behavior. It will explore the detrimental impact of zero-tolerance policies and their contribution to the school-to-prison pipeline. It will introduce issues, such as complex Miranda warning diction, and the benefits of including speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to aid in youth comprehension. Additionally, it will propose the integration of SLPs within the juvenile justice system to assist in communication between justice-involved youth (JIY) and justice professionals during conversations, questioning, and trials or hearings. Furthermore, this paper examines the roles of SLPs within juvenile justice systems abroad, including Canada, …


Evaluation Of Washington State's Senate Bill 5599 Concerning Runaway Transgender Youth, Cobi Clark 2024 University of Washington

Evaluation Of Washington State's Senate Bill 5599 Concerning Runaway Transgender Youth, Cobi Clark

Access*: Interdisciplinary Journal of Student Research and Scholarship

This paper utilizes a recognized policy analysis framework (Kraft & Furlong, 2017) to evaluate the objective effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, and ethical nature of Washington State’s 2023 Senate Bill 5599 (SB 5599, 2023) within contemporary social, political, cultural, and geographic contexts. Senate Bill 5599 was signed into law by Governor Inslee on May 9th, 2023, and became effective July 23rd, 2023. The bill established an exception to the reporting requirements the state and its agencies must follow when accepting runaway youth into shelters. The exception established is that the state is no longer required to report to …


Child-Taking, Diane Marie Amann 2024 University of Georgia School of Law

Child-Taking, Diane Marie Amann

Scholarly Works

A ruling group at times takes certain children from their community and then tries to remake them in its image. It tries to rid the child of undesired differences, in ethnicity or nationality, religion or politics, race or ancestry, culture or class. There are too many examples: the colonialist residential schools that forced settler cultures on Indigenous children; the military juntas that kidnapped dissidents’ children; and today’s reports of abductions amid crises like that in Syria. Too often nothing is done and the children are lost. But that may be changing, as the International Criminal Court is seeking to arrest …


The Impact Of Adverse Childhood Experiences And Child Protective Services Involvement On Juvenile Delinquency, Liana Pachot 2024 Concordia University St. Paul

The Impact Of Adverse Childhood Experiences And Child Protective Services Involvement On Juvenile Delinquency, Liana Pachot

Master of Arts in Human Services

In this paper, the aim is to study the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and the cause and effect that these experiences have on adolescent behavior that leads to delinquency involvement. Along with this, we will look at the impact of human services professionals, like child protective services, and their impact on these challenging behaviors and goal of decreasing recidivism. We will look at the structure of the juvenile justice system, and how human service professionals play a role in the systems that impact the adolescent delinquency population. There will also be a breakdown of what Adverse Childhood Experiences are …


University Of The District Of Columbia Law Review, University of the District of Columbia Law Review 2024 University of the District of Columbia School of Law

University Of The District Of Columbia Law Review, University Of The District Of Columbia Law Review

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

No abstract provided.


(Hidden) In Plain Sight: Migrant Child Labor And The New Economy Of Exploitation, Shefali Milczarek-Desai 2024 Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program

(Hidden) In Plain Sight: Migrant Child Labor And The New Economy Of Exploitation, Shefali Milczarek-Desai

Arkansas Law Review

Oppressive child labor in America is both an age-old problem and one that is relatively new. Part I presents the tumultuous history of child labor regulation in the United States—a history that provides clues as to why contemporary child labor laws fall far short of comprehensively addressing oppressive, migrant child labor. It then pivots to the contemporary child labor crisis by describing the new economy of exploitation and the unaccompanied migrant children upon which it relies. Part II sets forth the current U.S. legal landscape surrounding child labor laws, including these laws’ failure to protect migrant children. Next, Part II …


How To Situate High School Student Part-Time Work Trends: An [Incomplete] Empirical Glance, Michael Heise 2024 Cornell Law School

How To Situate High School Student Part-Time Work Trends: An [Incomplete] Empirical Glance, Michael Heise

Arkansas Law Review

Recent federal warnings about increases in child labor law violations coincide with various state efforts to dilute child labor protections. This Article confines itself to the array of outcomes attributable to lawful part time work performed by non-trafficked, full-time, U.S. high school students. This Article sets out to develop two modest and separate—though related—claims. The first claim is that clear and reliable answers do not emerge for such basic policy questions as, for example, whether student part-time work during high school constitutes a penalty or, instead, confers rewards to students. This Article’s second claim is methodological. Specifically, much of the …


Seeing Race & Sexuality: Child Welfare & Forced Labor, Annie Isabel Fukushima, Jens Nilson, Kaden Richards 2024 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Seeing Race & Sexuality: Child Welfare & Forced Labor, Annie Isabel Fukushima, Jens Nilson, Kaden Richards

Arkansas Law Review

This Article examines how child welfare responds to children who are forced to labor through a case study of California. We use an intersectional framework to argue that a


Children At Work, Parental Rights—And Rhetoric, Naomi Cahn, Maxine Eichner, Mary Ziegler 2024 University of Virginia School of Law

Children At Work, Parental Rights—And Rhetoric, Naomi Cahn, Maxine Eichner, Mary Ziegler

Arkansas Law Review

States are increasingly considering and enacting laws that reduce protections for child laborers, and the number of minors who have been employed in violation of existing child labor laws has been steadily growing. We argue that politicians deploy the rhetoric of parental rights in today’s legislative battles over child labor protections to


State Policy Levers To Fight Child Labor, Terri Gerstein 2024 NYU Wagner Labor Initiative at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

State Policy Levers To Fight Child Labor, Terri Gerstein

Arkansas Law Review

Oppressive child labor has made a resurgence in the United States. Media reports have revealed children as young as fourteen and fifteen working as roofers, in meatpacking facilities, in automobile manufacturing plants, and in other jobs that are hazardous and inappropriate for children. In the face of the current crisis, concerned commentators,


Foreword, Annie B. Smith 2024 University of Arkansas School of Law

Foreword, Annie B. Smith

Arkansas Law Review

There has been a recent and well-documented increase in unlawful child labor in the United States and a simultaneous organized effort to weaken state child labor protections. In reaction to these converging trends – along with disturbing media coverage of children injured and killed at work, the White House, U.S. Department of Labor, child advocates, labor rights’ organizers and others have mobilized to respond. This Symposium, Children at Work, was convened to focus our collective attention on this critical and emerging issue. Once considered well-settled, questions of when children work and the types of work they should do are again …


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