Rights, race, and reform : 50 years of child advocacy in the juvenile justice system / edited by Laura Cohen, Kristin Henning, Ellen Marus.
In 1962, a 15-year-old Arizona boy named Gerald Gault may or may not have made a lewd phone call to a neighbor. Gerald was arrested, prosecuted, removed from his parents' custody, and sent to a juvenile prison, all without legal representation. Gerald's mother's outrage at the treatme...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of contributors; PART I: Gault: then and 50 years later; 1 The many stories of In re Gault; The story of Jerry Gault; The story of Jerry's lawyers; The story of the Supreme Court and its ruling; The story of what came after: McKeiver v. Pennsylvania; Returning to the children; Notes; 2 Arizona before and after In re Gault: has Arizona realized the promises of In re Gault?; Arizona's juvenile system pre-Gault; Arizona's response to the Gault decision; Progress and setbacks post-Gault.
- Next steps to meet the promise of GaultNotes; 3 Toward equal recognition, authority, and protection: legal and extralegal advocacy for black youth in the juvenile justice system; Black children and the Warren Court; The fight for recognition of black childhood; Black women's clubs: voluntary and vital representatives; Fighting from within: black authorities weigh in; Demanding equal protection: the civil rights enforcement cases; Conclusion; Notes; 4 A new juvenile jurisprudence: how adolescent development research and relentless defense advocacy revolutionized criminal law and jurisprudence.
- IntroductionFailed attempts at abolishing the juvenile death penalty; The emerging science of adolescence development; The influence of adolescent development research on law and jurisprudence; Considerations for the future; Notes; PART II: Juvenile defense: models of representation; 5 The due process revolution in juvenile court
- New York and the early years after Gault; Notes; 6 Gault's ripple effect: the founding of Juvenile Law Center; Notes; 7 Specializing in juvenile defense: the D.C. Public Defender Service as a case study; A look back: PDS before the juvenile defense specialty.
- The first glimmers of a juvenile defense specialtyThe construction of PDS's modern approach to juvenile defense; Reflections on the Juvenile Unit and its evolution; Notes; 8 The role of law school clinics in implementing the Gault decision; Introduction; The criminal law revolution; The civil rights ferment; The clinical education movement; The creation of juvenile justice clinics; Juvenile delinquency clinics today; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Raising the bar: improving the model of defense representation for adolescents prosecuted in adult courts; Client narrative.
- History of prosecuting adolescents in New York StateTransforming the role of defense counsel representing adolescents in adult criminal court; Advocacy from outside the courtroom; Notes; 10 Building a national juvenile defense community: the National Juvenile Defender Center; The landscape inherited; As the 1980s drew to a close; Building a national juvenile defense community; Solidifying reform and moving ahead; Notes; PART III: Challenges and reform; 11 Being David: the future of juvenile defense and the Goliath of youth injustice; The worst of both worlds; Needed system reforms.