Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

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Beyond Mountaintop Removal: Pathways for Change in the Appalachian Coalfields

Laura Bozzi — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:13:47 PDT

The Shape of Appalachia to Come: Coal in a Transitional Economy

Randal A. Strobo — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:13:45 PDT

Growing Smaller & Cooler Without Exclusion or Displacement

Michael Rawson et al. — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:13:44 PDT

A Just Transition: Lessons Learned from the Environmental Justice Movement

Caroline Farrell — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:13:42 PDT

Preparing America’s Workforce for Jobs in the Green Economy: A Case for Technical Literacy

Kate Gordon et al. — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:13:40 PDT

Toward Equity: Prioritizing Vulnerable Communities in Climate Change

Beverly Wright et al. — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:13:32 PDT

Juvenile Adjudications and the Armed Career Criminal Act

Jennifer Swearingen — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:15:02 PDT

The ABAs Approach to Juvenile Justice Reform: Education, Eviction, and Employment: The Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Adjudication

Christopher Gowen et al. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:15:00 PDT

Ineffective Assistance and Drastic Punishments: The Duty to Inform Juveniles of Collateral Consequences in a Post-Padilla Court

Riya Saha Shah et al. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:59 PDT

Truancy Prosecutions of Students and the Right [to] Education

Dean Hill Rivkin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:57 PDT

Called Out at Home: The One Strike Eviction Policy and Juvenile Court

Wendy J. Kaplan et al. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:56 PDT

Detention and Deportation with Inadequate Due Process: The Devastating Consequences of Juvenile Involvement with Law Enforcement for Immigrant Youth

Elizabeth M. Frankel — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:55 PDT

Juvenile Incarceration and the Pains Of Imprisonment

Jeffrey Fagan et al. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:54 PDT

After legislatures criminalized a major portion of juvenile delinquency in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of incarcerated youth began serving their sentences in adult correctional facilities. To understand the ramifications of this practice, prior research studies compared the correctional experiences of youth in juvenile and adult facilities. Yet this research often minimized the pains of imprisonment for youth in juvenile facilities, based on the contrast to adult facilities and the toxic conditions of confinement within them. In this Article, we contribute to this literature by analyzing data from interviews with 188 young men incarcerated in juvenile and adult facilities across two states. Surprisingly, our results show that although inmates in adult facilities give higher ratings of services and social climates than youth in juvenile facilities (including criminal activity and victimization), they fare much worse on other measures of social and psychological well-being. Importantly, the inmates in adult facilities report substantially and significantly greater rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and symptoms of mental illness, and are much more likely to be afraid for their safety, compared to those in juvenile facilities. Based on these results, we argue that incarceration should be used only as a last resort for juveniles, regardless of institutional auspice, but that when it is deemed necessary, juvenile correctional facilities represent the lesser of two evils.

Creating Positive Consequences: Improving Education Outcomes for Youth Adjudicated Delinquent

Katherine Burdick et al. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:53 PDT

Introductory Remarks Given at the Duke Forum for Law & Social Change Symposium Our Youth at a Crossroad: The Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Adjudication

Jane Wettach — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:51 PDT

Intimate Violence, Foreign Solutions: Domestic Violence Policy and Muslim-American Women

Maura K. Finigan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:14:46 PDT