Criminal Justice - Valparaiso

The author introduces us to youth across the nation who have suffered violence and psychological torture at the hands of the state. She presents these youths all as fully realized people, not victims. As they describe in their own voices their fight to maintain their humanity and protect their individuality in environments that would deny both, these young people offer a hopeful alternative to the reform a system that should be dismantled.

In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Court, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults in New York City. The court, through creative use of judicial discretion and the cultivation of an innovative courtroom culture, developed a set of strategies for handling adult-juvenile cases that embraced, rather than denied, defendants and adolescence.

This book identifies and prioritizes strategies and policies to effectively facilitate reform of the juvenile justice system and develop an implementation plan for OJJDP.

This volume, grounded in history and exhaustive research, presents the latest evidence-based policies, programs, and innovative treatment alternatives. Examining the entire juvenile justice system, including juvenile law, policies, practices, and research, this book will be invaluable to all juvenile justice practitioners, policy analysts, researchers, and students.

Despite the continuing controversies surrounding ADHD, voluminous research has incontrovertibly established that it is a valid disorder that results in an increased risk for adverse outcomes in multiple areas of life. One of these is increased risk of criminal behavior.