Reforming Juvenile Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Juvenile Justice write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2013-05-22. Reforming Juvenile Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Reforming Juvenile Justice
Reforming Juvenile Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Juvenile Justice write by Josine Junger-Tas. This book was released on 2009-05-29. Reforming Juvenile Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with a number of critical issue in juvenile justice that have not been dealt with in extenso before
Rethinking Juvenile Justice
Rethinking Juvenile Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Juvenile Justice write by Elizabeth S Scott. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Rethinking Juvenile Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
A New Juvenile Justice System
A New Juvenile Justice System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Juvenile Justice System write by Nancy E. Dowd. This book was released on 2015-05-15. A New Juvenile Justice System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New Juvenile Justice System aims at nothing less than a complete reform of the existing system: not minor change or even significant overhaul, but the replacement of the existing system with a different vision. The authors in this volume—academics, activists, researchers, and those who serve in the existing system—all respond in this collection to the question of what the system should be. Uniformly, they agree that an ideal system should be centered around the principle of child well-being and the goal of helping kids to achieve productive lives as citizens and members of their communities. Rather than the existing system, with its punitive, destructive, undermining effect and uneven application by race and gender, these authors envision a system responsive to the needs of youth as well as to the community’s legitimate need for public safety. How, they ask, can the ideals of equality, freedom, liberty, and self-determination transform the system? How can we improve the odds that children who have been labeled as “delinquent” can make successful transitions to adulthood? And how can we create a system that relies on proven, family-focused interventions and creates opportunities for positive youth development? Drawing upon interdisciplinary work as well as on-the-ground programs and experience, the authors sketch out the broad parameters of such a system. Providing the principles, goals, and concrete means to achieve them, this volume imagines using our resources wisely and well to invest in all children and their potential to contribute and thrive in our society.
Implementing Juvenile Justice Reform
Implementing Juvenile Justice Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Implementing Juvenile Justice Reform write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2014. Implementing Juvenile Justice Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The report identifies seven hallmarks of a developmental approach to juvenile justice to guide system reform: accountability without criminalization, alternatives to justice system involvement, individualized response based on needs and risks, confinement only when necessary for public safety, genuine commitment to fairness, sensitivity to disparate treatment, and family engagement. Implementing Juvenile Justice Reform outlines how these hallmarks should be incorporated into policies and practices within OJJDP, as well as in actions extended to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions to achieve the goals of the juvenile justice system through a developmentally informed approach."--Publisher's description.
