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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/

 

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  6^th 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 Girls 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 justice

Jeffrey 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)

 

Thalia N.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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