Juvenile Justice:

Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice

edited by Francine Sherman & Francine Jacobs (2011)
New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

This book brings together experts in juvenile justice, child development, and public health to explore the intersections between juvenile justice and needed development of programs and policies that look out for the health and well-being of the youth who enter this system. It provides a framework for imagining juvenile justice systems that emphasize the welfare of juveniles, achieved primarily through connections within their communities.

SECTION I: Framing the Issues

Chapter 1: A Developmental View of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Marty Beyer

Chapter 2: Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: Characteristics and Patterns of Involvement
Kristi Holsinger

Chapter 3: The Health of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Paula Braverman & Robert Morris

Chapter 4: Children's Rights and Relationships: A Legal Framework
Francine T. Sherman & Hon. Jay Blitzman

Chapter 5: A Vision for the American Juvenile Justice System: The Positive Youth Development Perspective
Richard M. Lerner, Michael D. Wiatrowski, Megan Kiely Mueller, Christopher M. Napolitano, Kristina L. Schmid & Anita Pritchard

SECTION II: Understanding Individual Youth

Chapter 6: Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry in Juvenile Justice
James Bell & Raquel Mariscal

Chapter 7: The Role of Gender in Youth Systems: Grace's Story
Francine T. Sherman & Jessica H. Greenstone

Chapter 8: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Youth and the Juvenile Justice System
Laura Garnette, Angela Irvine, Carolyn Reyes & Shannan Wilber

Chapter 9: Adolescent Parents and the Juvenile Justice System: Toward Developmentally and Socioculturally Based Provision of Services
Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Karen T. Craddock & LaTasha L. Fermin

SECTION III: Understanding Youth in Context

Chapter 10: Parents, Families, and the Juvenile Justice System
Francine H. Jacobs, Claudia Miranda-Julian & Rachael Kaplan

Chapter 11: Violence Within Families and Intimate Relationships
Linda Baker, Alison Cunningham & Kimberly Harris

Chapter 12: Making a Place for Youth: Social Capital, Resilience, and Communities
Robert L. Hawkins, Maryna Vashchenko & Courtney Davis

Chapter 13: The Developmental Impact of Community Violence
Edmund Bruyere & James Garbarino

Chapter 14: The Right to a Quality Education for Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Kathleen B. Boundy & Joanne Karger

Chapter 15: Juvenile Prison Schooling and Reentry: Disciplining Young Men of Color
Sabina E. Vaught

Chapter 16: The System Response to the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Girls
Francine T. Sherman & Lisa Goldblatt Grace

Chapter 17: How American Government Frames Youth Problems
Timothy Ross & Joel Miller

Chapter 18: Youth Perspectives on Health Care
Rachel Oliveri, Ila Deshmukh Towery, Leah Jacobs & Francine H. Jacobs

SECTION IV: Working for Change

Chapter 19: Youth-Led Change Barry Dym, Ken Tangvik, Jesus Gerena & Jessica Dym Bartlett

Chapter 20: The End of the Reform School?
Vincent Schiraldi, Marc Schindler & Sean J. Goliday

Chapter 21: Collaboration in the Service of Better Systems for Youth
Anne F. Farrell & Diane M. Myers

Chapter 22: Getting on Board With Juvenile Justice Information Technologies
Stan Schneider & Lola Simpson

Chapter 23: Establishing Effective Community-Based Care in Juvenile Justice
Peter W. Greenwood & Susan Turner

Chapter 24: Better Research for Better Policies
Jeffrey A. Butts & John K. Roman

Afterword: Congressman Robert (Bobby) Scott

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