Clik here to view.
Children at the Margins: Poverty, Parental Incarceration, and Delinquency
As folks will discover if you become a regular reader of this blog, I am a parent of two girls, ages ten and twelve. As you may imagine, given my profession and educational background, my family is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Policing School Discipline
The title of this post is the title of a recently published article by my colleague, Professor Catherine Kim (University of North Carolina), who is also the co-author of the excellent book, The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Middle School Moment
The title of this post is the title of the excellent video below that Frontline produced on the school dropout crisis. For anyone who works with young adolescents, its message will resonate, as we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Overhaul the Juvenile Justice System: Accountability without Criminalization
A new federally commissioned report led by University of Virginia law professor Richard Bonnie lays out a blueprint to reform the nation’s juvenile justice system to better hold youth offenders...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Engagement of Victims in Juvenile and Family Courts
By Shawn C. Marsh, Ph.D. and Kelly Ranasinghe, J.D., C.W.L.S. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, more than three million children were reported to authorities for abuse or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just World Belief and Victim Blaming
By Alicia DeVault, B.S., and Martha-Elin Blomquist, Ph.D. Media coverage of recent events such as campus sexual assaults and officer-involved shootings brings to light a topic that is not often...
View ArticleClik here to view.
25 Year-Old Adolescents?
By Kevin Lapp, Associate Professor of Law, Loyola Law School|Los Angeles Adolescents are neither children nor adults. But who falls within the category of adolescents? Given the great advantages of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Perceiving Adolescence
By Kevin Lapp, Associate Professor, Loyola Law School|Los Angeles The challenge of demarcating adolescence from childhood and adulthood comes mainly from figuring out when it ends. 18 has been the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No Perfect Victim
By Sarah Smith, JD, and Carlene Gonzalez, Ph.D., in conjunction with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Most people would agree that the victim of a crime is the last person who...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why do Victims “Lie”?
Written by Amanda Kay, JD, and Ryan L. Gonda, JD[1] Published in conjunction with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Introduction Children and adult victims of violence and abuse...
View Article
