First Readings for Spring 2025
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Dates for Spring 2025
- The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Monday, December 9, 2024.
- Assignments will begin to be posted Monday, December 9, 2024.
- The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Monday, February 3, 2025.
- Assignments will be removed on Monday, February 3, 2025.
Juvenile Justice (LAWS 797 §001)
Instructor Name(s)
Wasilczuk
Textbook Information
Barry C. Feld, Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration (6th ed.) 2022.
General Assignment Information
Unit 1: Sentences of Youth in Criminal Court and Dispositions of Youth in Juvenile Court (a.k.a. “Children are different”)
Class 1
January 15 Introduction to the juvenile court, and trends and tensions in youth justice
“Get Tough” policies & adolescent culpability
Read:
- Casebook, 3-5
- Casebook, 7 (Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899, § 9). This statute is the first juvenile court statute in the United States.
- Casebook, 9-13 (excerpt from Mack, The Juvenile Court)
- Excerpts from The Sentencing Project, Bringing More Teens Home
- Casebook, 32-35 (get tough policy changes)
- Casebook, 36-37 (introduction to adolescent culpability)
- Casebook, 37-47 Scott and Steinberg “Blaming Youth” – summary of developmental research which suggests adolescents have systemically worse decision-making capabilities and thus are less culpable.
- Center for Youth Wellness, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Implications for Juvenile Justice, page 4-8