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Juvenile Justice:  Passages, Prevention, and Intervention 
 
February 19 and 20, 2010
 
Sponsored by:
Juvenile Justice Project
Center for Children and Families
University of Florida Levin College of Law
 
In collaboration with the Center for Race and Race Relations,
University of Florida Levin College of Law
 
Co-sponsors:  Child Advocacy Project, Harvard Law School and the
Juvenile Justice Clinic, Georgetown University School of Law
 
Plenary Speakers:  Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s
Zone
     Shay Bilchik, director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform,
Georgetown University
 
Juvenile Justice Project website: 
http://www.law.ufl.edu/centers/childlaw/
 
Conference website: 
http://www.law.ufl.edu/centers/childlaw/juvenile justice/conferences/ (
http://www.law.ufl.edu/centers/childlaw/juvenile%20justice/conferences/
)
 
Program:
 
Juvenile Justice: Passages. Prevention, and Intervention 
 
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
 
I.  Contexts of Delinquency  Martin Guggenheim , Fiorello LaGuardia
Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law(child protection/child
welfare) 
Claudia Wright , Juvenile Justice Monitor, Office of the Attorney
General, Maryland,  “Making Systems Integration Work”(dependency)
 
Leslie Harris, Dorothy Kliks Fone Professor, School of Law, University
of Oregon (dependency)
 
Alonzo DeCarlo, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Chicago
State University “The Politics of Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
with Minority Adolescents in Urban America” 
 
Emily Buss, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of Law, University of
Chicago, Commentator 
(moderator, Professor Meshon Rawls, University of Florida, Director,
GatorTeamChild Clinic)
 
II.  Disproportionate Minority Contact 
Rhyna Jefferson, State of Florida Disproportionate Minority Contact
Coordinator   Kenneth Nunn, Professor, University of Florida College of
Law  (race and juvenile justice/family intervention/support)James
Forman, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law(education,
race, kids, justice)
Theresa Glennon, Feinberg Professor of Law, Temple University, “Looking
for Air:  Excavating Destructive Educational and Racial Policies to
Build Successful School Communities”
 
Judge Irene Sullivan, Unified Family Court  6th Circuit  (FL),
Commissioner on the Florida Blue Print Commission on Juvenile Justice
Reform , Commentator   (Presides over dependency and delinquency cases;
working in support of the Blue Print report to effect legislative reform
of the juvenile justice system)
(moderator, Professor Monique Haughton-Worrell, University of Florida
College of Law)
 
LUNCHEON PLENARY SPEAKER:  SHAY BILCHEK, Research Professor and
Director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy
Institute, Georgetown University
The Ebb and Flow of Juvenile Justice in America 

Over the past 20 years we have seen extreme changes in the
philosophical underpinnings of the juvenile justice systems across the
country. This swing of the pendulum is not new to us, but in the past we
made our case for a more appropriate, proportionate and consistent
response to juvenile offending without the strong research that now
exists in support of this position. Our Luncheon Speaker, Shay Bilchik,
will address our ability to use this research to create and sustain this
more effective response to juvenile crime, and the policy, practice and
leadership implications related to these efforts. He will explore these
issues from both a developmental and multi-system perspective, focusing
on the use of data, the reengineering of how we structure our work, and
the need to partner in the development of family and community resources
in preventing delinquency, reducing recidivism and achieving better
outcomes for our system involved youth. 

III.  Gender Issues
Lawanda Rivoira, Director of the National Center for Gi
rls and Young
Women  
 
Tamar Birkhead, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, “The
Youngest Profession:  Consent, Autonomy, and Child Prostitution”
 
Sarah Valentine, Legal Research Coordinator and Associate Law
Librarian, CUNY School of Law “Supporting Non-standardized Children: 
Promising Futures for Queer Youth”
 
Joy Patton, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of
Arkansas at Little Rock(girls/risk and preventive factors)
 
Jen Woolard, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Georgetown
University , Commentator
(moderator:  Melissa Bamba, Center for the Study of Race and Race
Relations, University of Florida)
 
IV.  Paradigms for Change 
Laurie Garduque, Program Director, The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, Program on Human and Community Development, Models
for Change Program (overview of MacArthur’s Models for Change approach)

 
Mark Fondacaro, Professor, Department of Psychology, John Jay College
of Criminal Justice   “Retributive Injustice;  Toward a Comprehensive
Risk Management Model of Juvenile Justice,”Dana Shoenberg, Senior Staff
Attorney, Center for Children’s Law and Policy,  Robert Schwartz,
Executive Director and co-founder, Juvenile Law Center
Carlos Martinez, Public Defender,  Miami-Dade County, Florida,
Commentator  
(moderator:  Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, Professor, Department of Criminology,
University of Florida)
 
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20
V.  Developmental Perspectives
Elizabeth Scott , Harold R. Medina Professor of Law, Columbia Law
School(adolescent development and juvenile justiceJeffrey Fagan ,
Professor of law & Public Health, Director, Center for Crime, Community
and Law, Columbia Law School  (legal socialization of adolescents)
Alex Piquero, Criminology, Professor, University of Maryland,
“Differential Deterrence: Studying Heterogeneity and Changes in
Perceptual Deterrence among Serious Youthful Offenders”
 
 Barbara Woodhouse, L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic, Emory University School of Law 
ecological model and juvenile justice/ comparative look at EU
 
Chris Slobogin, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychiatry,
Vanderbilt University Law School,  Commentator   
(moderator:  Dr. Lauren Fasig, Research Director, Center for Children
and Families, University of Florida
 
VI.  Programs for Change
David Katner, Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Tulane Law School
Juvenile Law Clinic “Daycare and Delinquency”Eric Dawson, Executive
Director and co-founder, Peace Games (Peace Games/model for learning
nonviolent dispute resolution)Khary Lazarre White, Co Director of
Brotherhood/Sister Sol, New York City, youth development program in
Harlem
Bart Lubow, Funding Officer for Juvenile Justice Initiatives, Annie E.
Casey Foundation,  Commentator    (Efforts focused on reforming juvenile
justice system so that they lock up fewer youth, rely more on proven,
family-focused interventions, and create opportunities for positive
youth development (prevention and early intervention). The site is:
http://www.aecf.org/OurWork/JuvenileJustice.aspx)
 
ThaliaN.C. Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Politics Department,
Occidental College (Denver, restorative justice in schools)
(moderator:  Professor Kristin Henning, Deputy Director, Juvenile
Justice Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center)
 
LUNCHEON PLENARY SPEAKER:  GEOFFREY CANADA, Founder and Director, The
Harlem Children’s Zone
 
 
 
Sacha M. Coupet, Ph.D., J.D.

Assistant Professor of Law & Director of Research Civitas ChildLaw
Center
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
(312) 915-7134
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