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Positive Power: Exercising Judicial Leadership to Prevent Court Involvement and Incarceration of Non-Delinquent Youth
Positive Power: Exercising Judicial Leadership to Prevent Court Involvement and Incarceration of Non-Delinquent Youth
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 24, 2012
ANNOTATION: Strategies that judges can use for keeping youth identified as status offenders out of correctional institutions are illustrated through the practices of nine juvenile and family court judges. Sections of this brief include: introduction; defining the issue—first do no harm; exploring a solution—judicial leadership on the Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO) core requirement of the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA); four elements of effective judicial leadership—demand for evidence-based approaches, balancing of interests, reliance on partnerships, and the use of judicial convening power; the nine judges and how they address status offenses; and expanding judicial leadership on DSO.
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