Resources
Bibliography
"The 2012-13 Budget: Completing Juvenile Justice Realignment [Publication Details]." http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2562.
Ayers, William, et al. Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools: A Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens. New Press, 2002.
"Brain Development, Teen Behavior and Preventing Drug Use." Partnership for Drug-Free Kids - Where Families Find Answers. https://drugfree.org/article/brain-development-teen-behavior/.
"Criminal Justice Facts." The Sentencing Project. https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/.
Burton, Susan, and Cari Lynn. Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women. New York: New Press, 2017.
Cass, Julia, et al. America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline: A Children's Defense Fund Report. Children's Defense Fund, 2007.
Dowd, Nancy E. Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids out of the Juvenile Justice System. New York University Press, 2016.
Emdin, Christopher. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education. Beacon Press, 2017.
Hewitt, Damon, Catherine Y. Kim, and Daniel J. Losen. School-to-prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform. New York University Press, 2010.
"Juvenile Arrest Rate Trends." Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05200.
"Out of Jail and Into Jobs." Education Next. April 11, 2011. https://www.educationnext.org/out-of-jail-and-into-jobs/.
Rosenhaim, Margaret Keeney., and Adele Simmons. A Century of Juvenile Justice. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Scott, Elizabeth S., and Laurence D. Steinberg. Rethinking Juvenile Justice. Harvard University Press, 2010.
Tanenhaus, David S., and Franklin E. Zimring. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice. New York University Press, 2014.
"A Teacher's Guide to Rerouting the Pipeline." Teaching Tolerance. https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2013/a-teachers-guide-to-rerouting-the-pipeline.
Tough, Paul. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
"United States Courts." United States Courts. http://www.uscourts.gov/.
Walker, Samuel. Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press, 1998.
“What Are the Implications of Adolescent Brain Development for Juvenile Justice?” Coalition for Juvenile Justice, 2006.
Recommended Teacher Resources
Ahranjani, Maryam, Andrew G. Ferguson, and Jamin B. Raskin. Youth Justice in America. SAGE, 2015. (Superb resource created to teach students in detention about the criminal justice process.)
Forman, James. Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. (A valuable text for teachers looking to understand the history of the justice system in America and how persecution of people of color has been perpetuated.)
Rios, Victor M. Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth. The University of Chicago Press, 2017. (Rios’ book is especially valuable for Bay Area teachers who teach Latinos and whose student population might be gang affiliated.)
Student Resources
Anderson, Scott. “Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough?” New York Times. July 19, 2012.
Beaty, Daniel. “Knock Knock (Def Jam Poetry).” YouTube. January 24, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZrPVqR0D8 (Powerful spoken word performance that personalizes the impact of mass incarceration on families and youth.)
Blinder, Alan. "After a Massacre, a Question of One More Death: The Gunman's." The New York Times, 24 February 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/nikolas-cruz-parkland-florida.html. Accessed 26 July 2018.
Chang, Ailsa. “A Lesson in How to Overcome Implicit Bias.” NPR. April 19, 2018. Accessed July 28, 2018. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/04/19/604070231/a-lesson-in-how-to-overcome-implicit-bias
“Criminal Justice Facts.” The Sentencing Project. Accessed July 14, 2018. https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/ (The graphics on this website are very accessible and engaging for students)
“From Juvie to Juvenile Law: Frankie Guzman’s Unlikely Journey.” The Chronicle of Social Change. April 20 2017. Accessed May 13, 2018. https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/news-2/from-juvie-to-juvenile-law-frankie-guzmans-unlikely-journey
Garinger, Gail. "Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences." The New York Times, 14 March 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/opinion/juveniles-dont-deserve-life-sentences.html?_r=0. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.
Jones, Sabrina, and Marc Mauer. Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling. New Press, 2013. (A highly engaging graphic representation of the history of race and incarceration in America that students will find accessible and interesting.)
Krikorian, Greg. "Many Kids Called Unfit for Adult Trial." The Sacramento Bee, 3 March 2003, http://dvdesignrstoll.weebly.com/erwc-juvenile-justice.html. Accessed 28 July 2018.
Lundstrom, Marjile. “Kids Are Kids—Until They Commit Crimes.” Sacramento Bee. March 1, 2001.
Redell, Bob. “Youth Crime on the Rise in Santa Clara County: Report.” NBC Bay Area. May 28, 2018. Accessed July 29, 2018. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Juvenile-Crime-Santa-Clara-County-2017-Report-483854531.html
Santiago Baca, Jimmy. “Who Understands Me, But Me” from Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. New Directions Publishing Co., 1990.
Sifferlin, Alexandria. “Why Teenage Brains are so Hard to Understand.” Time Magazine, September 8, 2017. http://time.com/4929170/inside-teen-teenage-brain/.
Thompson, Paul. “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains”. Sacramento Bee. May 25, 2001.
Tropp, “Overcoming Implicit Bias and Racial Anxiety.” Psychology Today. Accessed July 28, 2018. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201501/overcoming-implicit-bias-and-racial-anxiety. (A necessary resource for students who become aware of the prevalence of implicit bias in behavioral interventions that effectively help overcome implicit bias.)
WPTVnews. YouTube. September 12, 2011. Accessed July 29, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE-dDOkWKo0
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