Child Justice

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Comment by Dana Quantz on October 7, 2009 at 1:07pm

Does your project focus on civil forms of justice as well? There's been a fair bit of research in Canada regarding young offenders in the criminal system. However, we're only beginning to see a literature developing regarding youth in the civil system.

Comment by Jennifer Tang on May 7, 2009 at 9:45pm

The Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is launching the Juvenile Justice Project, an effort to benefit children locally, statewide and nationally by focusing on the juvenile justice system. We will devote ourselves to research, advocacy, conferences, workshops and projects in this area and welcome collaboration with others.

We invite you to visit our website at http://www.law.ufl.edu/centers/childlaw/juvenilejustice/

Our first conference will be February 19 and 20 2010, and we have confirmed as our plenary speakers Geoffrey Canada, the founder and president of the Harlem Children’s Zone, the innovative project profiled by Paul Tough in Whatever It Takes (2008), and Shay Bilchik, Director of the Juvenile Justice Reform Project at Georgetown, and former president of the Child Welfare League of America. For further information about the first conference, which will focus on issues of prevention and avoidance, and to respond to the Call for Papers, please go to our website. Registration information to attend the conference will be available in fall 2009.

We also invite you to read our report about the controversy over shackling juveniles, The Shackling of Juvenile Offenders: The Debate in Juvenile Justice Policy, available for downloading on our website.



Lauren G. Fasig, JD, Ph.D
Director of Research
Center on Children & Families
Fredric G. Levin College of Law
University of Florida
PO Box 117625
Gainesville, FL 32611-7625
(352) 273-0770