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Juvenile Justice Now Reinvention and Promise By H. Ted Rubin, J.D., M.S.W. When a young person breaks the law or acts in
ways that violate norms of behavior, how the community responds
varies tremendously from place to place. There is no “national”
juvenile justice system—juvenile law is a patchwork of state and
local statutes, and every jurisdiction has its own local practices,
customs, and norms. Nevertheless, while local differences are
important, there is also a growing national recognition about how to
deal with young people who have committed an offense; advances in
fields ranging from neurobiology to cultural competence are helping
to forge what amounts to a national consensus on best practices.
This book brings together the encouraging progress Ted Rubin has
witnessed in his visits to juvenile courts around the country, as reported in
regular columns for the quarterly Juvenile Justice Update over
the last decade. This is the central focus of Juvenile Justice
Now: Reinvention and Promise. It tells the story of the
then-new invention, a juvenile court, which was first unveiled in
1899 in Chicago, and was to spread out into all but two
states by 1925. It recounts both progressive and regressive developments and practices in subsequent
decades. The juvenile courts are again moving forward, through the
efforts of people and programs like the ones profiled in this book,
reinventing the juvenile justice system and realizing the promise it
embodies. For juvenile court officers, judges, academic researchers, and youth advocates Juvenile Justice Now digs into more than 40 juvenile justice programs from around the country, to provide a treasury of inspiration, innovation and effective practice:
H. Ted Rubin was Judge of the Denver Juvenile Court from 1965-1971. From 1971 until 1992, he was Director for Juvenile/Criminal Justice and then Senior Staff Attorney for the Institute for Court Management (ICM) of the National Center for State Courts, Denver. He was a principal in the national Restitution Education, Specialized Training, and Technical Assistance Project (RESTTA) (1984-1992) and was honored in 1990 with the National Center for State Courts’ Award of Excellence. Related Publications:
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