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Juvy blues

Light linking and posting this week. At the moment I'm extraordinarily bummed out about juvenile justice, and not just because Apache County, Arizona is prosecuting an 8-year-old for premeditated murder. This week I'm feeling like a collaborator, not in the pop psychology team-building sense, but in the Vichy French sense. My advocacy has done little to avoid some rotten outcomes for my kid clients. Consequently, I'm grasping at any positive news I can find. Like this, from DOJ:Justice Department Study Dispels Myths About Girls' DelinquencyWhich leads to DOJ Girls' Delinquency webpage, featuring a stock photo of a j.d. whom many, many of my 16 and 17 year old clients would be totally into:The Center for Children and Youth Justice seems to be doing a couple of good things as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).