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The big issue for young defendants are false confessions, since some research suggests that minors are more likely to tell interrogators what they want to hear or to brag about their gang exploits. The other concern is that youth are not equipped to adequately participate in their own defense.
One measure of how some schools’ priorities have changed is that, according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, 1.6 million children attend a school that has an SRO but not a school counselor. Further, minority students are more likely than white students to attend a school where an SRO is present but there is no school counselor.
Very few things mattered to me, including my own life. It was not until I joined the college program of the juvenile detention facility that I was placed at that I realized the important role that education could play in helping young men like myself and others turn their life around.
Who are we and what do we stand for in criminal and juvenile justice reform?
California takes a historic step forward this month as it moves to enact restrictions on the use of solitary confinement in state and local facilities for youth — curbing a manifest violation of human rights and protecting its youth from the trauma of isolated confinement.
The mention of race stirs emotions that are usually not expressed for fear of the response.
I work closely with young men of color in various neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York, providing individual and group therapy.
There’s good news and bad news in the report “Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2015,” the most recent in an annual series produced jointly by the U.S. departments of education (ED) and justice (DOJ). Just as important, there’s help available to sustain the good news and tackle the bad.
Trauma-informed does not necessarily translate to implementing and sustaining trauma-informed care. Being informed is an important step in the process, but not the end step. The end step is implementing trauma care in a consistent and sustained way.
Many educators view a new school year as an opportunity for improvement, a fresh start and a chance to reset, especially with respect to student discipline.