Goals

1. Sponsorship of a Juvenile Justice Track at the Section’s Fall Institute –October 26, 2012
2. Promote the IJA-ABA Standards for Juvenile Justice
3. Promote the Juvenile Collateral Consequences website -- www.beforeyouplea.com
4. Continue working on the DRAFT Juvenile Justice Standards on Crossover Youth
5. Juvenile Life Without Parole
• Monitor how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama is being implemented by the states
• Possible collaboration with Section’s Corrections Committee
6. Potential Policy Development
• Dual Diagnosis/Co-Occurring Disorders
• Juvenile Victims in Juvenile Justice
• Privatization of Prisons
• Appeals of Juvenile Cases: noting the lack of appellate decisions compared to adults in the criminal justice system
7. Meet three times per year

About The Committee

Develops CLE programs for juvenile justice practitioners, develops policies to further national juvenile justice reform, and coordinates selection of the Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award.

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Leadership

Co-Chairs:  Terence Brennen, Michael A Corriero, Lawrence A Wojcik

Committee Roster (208 total members)

The State of Juvenile Justice

The State of Criminal Justice: Juvenile Justice (2012)

The State of Criminal Justice: Juvenile Justice (2011)

The State of Criminal Justice: Juvenile Justice (2010)

ABA Policy on Juvenile Justice

ABA Policies on the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act

1. 101A: Juvenile Sex Offender Registration Resolution and Report, approved 2009 ABA Midyear Meeting
2. Juvenile Justice Standards on Records and Information Systems, approved 1979 ABA House of Delegates

Resources

DHS Human Trafficking Awareness Training

IJA-ABA Juvenile Justice Standards

Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award

OJJDP Journal of Juvenile Justice, Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 2012

New York Law Journal: Chief Judge Lippman's Juvenile Justice Proposal

New York Law Journal: Q&A with Juvenile Justice Committee Co-Chair Michael A. Corriero

National Center for Youth in Custody (NC4YC) – list of juvenile justice resources

Equal Justice Initiative

Juvenile Justice Blog