Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System

by Nancy E. Dowd (Editor)

Overview

Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, developing deeper problems and or transferring into the adult criminal justice system. Justice for Kids is a volume of work by leading academics and activists that focuses on ways to intervene at the earliest possible point to rehabilitate and redirect—to keep kids out of the system—rather than to punish and drive kids deeper.

Justice for Kids presents a compelling argument for rethinking and restructuring the juvenile justice system as we know it. This unique collection explores the system’s fault lines with respect to all children, and focuses in particular on issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation that skew the system. Most importantly, it provides specific program initiatives that offer alternatives to our thinking about prevention and deterrence, with an ultimate focus on keeping kids out of the system altogether.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814744086
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Series:	Families, Law, and Society , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	323
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Nancy E. Dowd is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and David Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is the editor of the Families, Law and Society series at NYU Press, and author or editor of numerous books, including Reimagining Equality: A New Deal for Children of Color.

Table of Contents

Preface  Introduction Part I System Change 1 Redefining the Footprint of Juvenile Justice in America  2 Delinquency and Daycare  3 Challenging the Overuse of Foster Care and Disrupting the Path to Delinquency and Prison 4 Preventing Incarceration through Special Education and Mental Health Collaboration for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 5 Looking for Air: Excavating Destructive Educational and Racial Policies to Build Successful School CommunitiesPart II Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation 6 The Black Nationalist Cure to Disproportionate Minority Contact 7 Girl Matters: Unfinished Work 8 Supporting Queer Youth Part III Legal Socialization and Policing 9 Deterring Serious and Chronic Offenders 10 “I Want to Talk to My Mom”Part IV Model Programs 11 Moving beyond Exclusion 12 The Line of Prevention  13 What It Takes to Transform a School inside a Juvenile Justice  Facility About the Contributors Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

An important book at an important time."-P.S. Kelly,CHOICE

"Justice for Kids presents comprehensive research and evidence-based practices anchored in sound, creative and critical analysis necessary to transform both our youth-serving institutions and our moral intuitions and commitments to all of our children.” -Mark Fondacaro,co-author of Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice

"This remarkable and sobering collection of scholarly works shines much-needed light on our nation’s unjust treatment of youth and how the injustice flows most heavily along the lines of race, poverty and disability. Educators, policymakers, and advocates all should find this book as motivating as it is disturbing: for every reason it gives to despair about the current system, it also reveals a pathway toward a far less populated system of juvenile justice, one that actually helps children rather than harms them." -Daniel Losen,co-author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform

Editorial Reviews

"This remarkable and sobering collection of scholarly works shines much-needed light on our nations unjust treatment of youth and how the injustice flows most heavily along the lines of race, poverty and disability. Educators, policymakers, and advocates all should find this book as motivating as it is disturbing: for every reason it gives to despair about the current system, it also reveals a pathway toward a far less populated system of juvenile justice, one that actually helps children rather than harms them."

Daniel Losen

"Justice for Kids presents comprehensive research and evidence-based practices anchored in sound, creative and critical analysis necessary to transform both our youth-serving institutions and our moral intuitions and commitments to all of our children."

Mark Fondacaro

"This remarkable and sobering collection of scholarly works shines much-needed light on our nation’s unjust treatment of youth and how the injustice flows most heavily along the lines of race, poverty and disability. Educators, policymakers, and advocates all should find this book as motivating as it is disturbing: for every reason it gives to despair about the current system, it also reveals a pathway toward a far less populated system of juvenile justice, one that actually helps children rather than harms them." -Daniel Losen,co-author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform

" Justice for Kids presents comprehensive research and evidence-based practices anchored in sound, creative and critical analysis necessary to transform both our youth-serving institutions and our moral intuitions and commitments to all of our children.” -Mark Fondacaro,co-author of Juveniles at Risk: A Plea for Preventive Justice

"Judges and attorneys as well as law enforcement agencies and juvenile advocates will find this book useful as they work toward the goal of fair treatment and justice for juveniles, both guilty and innocent."- Library Journal

"An important book at an important time."-P.S. Kelly, CHOICE

From the Publisher