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2015-2016 Go Big Read: Just Mercy : Children & Juveniles in Prison
This guide provides an overview of "Just Mercy" which was adopted as 2015-2016 Go Big Read book. It also offers useful information on related issues.
Library Resources at UW-Madison Campus
Burning down the House by ISBN: 9781595589569Publication Date: 2014-06-03Bernstein 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 doomed effort to reform a system that should only be dismantled.
Juvenile Crime and Justice by ISBN: 9781412978583Publication Date: 2011-05-03The authors of Juvenile Crime and Justice address various hotly debated topics along three loosely connected themes: prevention, prosecution, and corrections. Each author presents arguments both in favor of and opposed to various treatments, programs, and punishments, examining issues such as youth curfews, juveniles in adult courts, legal representation for juveniles, juvenile boot camps, group homes, out-of-home placement, and more.
Falling Back by ISBN: 9780813560748Publication Date: 2013-04-15Jamie J. Fader documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives?
When Kids Get LifeISBN: 0793693624Publication Date: 2007The United States is one of the only countries in the world that allows children under 18 to be sentenced to life without parole. This program profiles the cases of five juveniles sentenced in Colorado to life in prison without the possibility of parole. It explores whether juveniles should receive sentences that, in effect, end any possibility of life outside of prison
Organizations
- Center for Children's Law and PolicyThe Center for Children’s Law and Policy (CCLP) is a public interest law and policy organization focused on reform of juvenile justice and other systems that affect troubled and at-risk children, and protection of the rights of children in those systems. The Center’s work covers a range of activities including research, writing, public education, media advocacy, training, technical assistance, administrative and legislative advocacy, and litigation.
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal JusticeThe Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems. In pursuit of this mission, CJCJ provides direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis that work in unison to promote a balanced and humane criminal justice system designed to reduce incarceration and enhance long-term public safety.
- Youth Services of Southern WisconsinThe Runaway & Homeless Youth Program offers counseling, outreach, mediation, support and case management assistance. Child abuse/neglect, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, mental health concerns, homelessness, and juvenile crime are just some of the issues with which we deal. Licensed by the State of Wisconsin as a Child Welfare/Child Placing Agency, Briarpatch provides youth in need of temporary housing with shelter in licensed volunteer host-homes.
- National Center for Juvenile JusticeNCJJ is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is effective justice for children and families through research and technical assistance. For four decades, NCJJ has conducted research and provided objective, factual information that professionals and decision makers in the juvenile and family justice system use to increase effectiveness.
Overview Resources on Juveniles in Prison
Read the Equal Justice Initiative report All Children Are Children: Challenging Abusive Punishment of Juveniles here.
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- Youth Crime: An Undergraduate Research Guide (UW-Madison Libraries)This guide focuses on crimes and misdemeanors committed by those under the legal age for punishment as adults. Included are such topics as so-called "status offenders" (minors punished for activities, such as drinking or leaving home, which would not be crimes for adults), youth gangs, juvenile courts, and young people in prison.
- Equal Justice Inititiative: Children in PrisonResources and information about children and juveniles in prison in the United States.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation: Juvenile JusticeProvides resources about juvenile incarceration in the United States.
- Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative ReportThis report provides a detailed update on the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative's progress since 2009.