Advance Preparation
Video Vignettes: The video clips used in Unit 4 may be found on this Web site.
www.vimeo.com/channels/lawandjustice
Activity 1A: Snapshots
Images of Youth Art in Juvenile Justice
http://lawandjustice.edc.org/sites/lawandjustice.edc.org/files/Unit4_Activity1A_Gallery_Walk_Images.pdf
Artistic Noise (Boston)
www.artisticnoise.org/boston/thumbnails.php
Artistic Noise (New York)
www.artisticnoise.org/ny/thumbnails.php
Children's Prison Art Project, Harris County, Texas
www.childrensprisonart.org/gallery.htm
Artists' Statements
The artists who created some of the images listed above developed "artist's statements that frame some of their work.
http://www.artisticnoise.org/art.php
Identifying Systemic Issues
A New Era in California Juvenile Justice: Downsizing the State Youth Corrections System. Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and National Council on Crime and Delinquency. October 2010.
www.lawberkeley.edu/files/A_New_Era_10-22-2010.pdf
Video Vignettes of Juveniles in the Court System
Video 1: Snapshots (12:04)
http://vimeo.com/channels/lawandjustice
Calamari Productions
http://www.calamariproductions.com/index.html
Ordering information for educational media produced by Calamari in both long- and short-form vignettes may be found here:
https://calamarioutlet.com/
Activity 1B: Still a Child?
Information on the American Bar Association’s stance on adolescents and culpability:
“Adolescence, Brain Development and Legal Culpability – Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Juvenile Death Penalty.” Juvenile Justice Center, American Bar Association. January 2004.
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/Adolescence.pdf
Resources on current adolescent brain research:
“Inside the Teenage Brain.” Frontline. Public Broadcasting Service. Includes full program for online viewing, video clips, articles, and interactive diagrams.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/
Begley, Sharon. “Getting Inside A Teen Brain.” Newsweek. February 28, 2000.
http://www.newsweek.com/2000/02/27/getting-inside-a-teen-brain.html
Giedd, J., Blumenthal, J., Jeffries, N., Castellanos, F., Liu, H., Zijdenbos, A., Paus, T., Evans, A. & Rapoport, J. (1999) "Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study", Nature Neuroscience. 10, pp. 861-863. Full text available for download for a fee or a subscription.
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v2/n10/full/nn1099_861.html
Activity 1C: Evolution of the Juvenile Justice System
Resources on juvenile status offenders:
Juvenile Status Offenders and Their Families. (117:37) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Videoconference presented on ____ in conjunction with the American Bar Association's Commission on Youth at Risk and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Family and Youth Services Bureau. http://www.videolinks4u.net/v/1wh1TKc_I2Q/juvenile-status-offenders-and-their-families--educational-documentary-video
“Juvenile Status Offenders: Constraints on Judicial Powers.”
http://law.jrank.org/pages/1539/Juvenile-Status-Offenders-Constraints-on-judicial-powers.html
Information on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) and efforts to Deinstitutionalize Status Offenders (DSO):
“Improving Outcomes For Status Offenders in the JJDPA Reauthorization.” Juvenile and Family Justice Today. Summer 2010.
http://www.juvjustice.org/media/announcements/announcement_link_156.pdf
Kelly, John. “South Struggles with JJDPA Compliance in ’09; What About the Rest of the Country?” April 29, 2010. Youth Today. American Youth Work Center. http://www.youthtoday.org/view_blog.cfm?blog_id=340
Activity 1D: Using Discretion
Optional Extension: Student Simulation
http://www.cjny.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=15&Itemid=30
Activity 1F: Choosing a Course of Action
Source: Allen, Terrence T. (2005, June). Taking a juvenile into custody: Situational factors that influence police officers’ decisions. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 32(2),121–125.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Taking+a+juvenile+into+custody%3A+situational+factors+that+influence...-a0133774841
Paperless Option: California Codes
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
Activity 1G: Reflecting on Juvenile Arrests
Unit 2: The Legal System in Action from Foundations in Law
After logging in, click on the Complete Unit PDF to access Activity 2D: What Do the Numbers Say?
http://lawandjustice.edc.org/unit/unit-2-legal-system-action
Juvenile Arrests: Selected facts
kidsdata.org
http://www.kidsdata.org/data/topic/dashboard.aspx?cat=30
Easy Access to FBI Arrest Statistics
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezaucr/asp/ucr_display.asp
Optional Activity: Discretion and Racial Profiling
http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/08/voices_from_brooklyn_racial_profilings_part_of_everyday_life_here.html
Resources:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2003/June/racial_profiling_fact_sheet.pdf
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/racial-profiling
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bja/184768.pdf
http://www.cato.org/research/terrorism/pubs/levy-011002.html
http://www.amnestyusa.org/us-human-rights/racial-profiling/page.do?id=1106650
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/raceprof.pdf