Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System

About the Contributors

| 307 About the Contributors Brian R. Barber is a doctoral student in special education at the University of Florida. His research interests include social-emotional intervention for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Shay Bilchik is Research Professor and Director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. He formerly served as head of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the Clinton administration, and as head of the Child Welfare League of America. Benjamin Cairns, MPA, is the Restorative Justice Coordinator at North High School in Denver, Colorado. David Domenici is the Principal of the Maya Angelou Academy at New Beginnings and the cofounder of the Maya Angelou Schools. Nancy E. Dowd is the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law and Director, Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Jeffrey Fagan is Professor of Law and Public Health at Columbia University, and Director of the Center for Crime, Community, and Law at Columbia Law School. His research examines policing, juvenile justice, and capital punishment. He is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. James Forman Jr. is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a cofounder of the Maya Angelou Schools. Joseph C. Gagnon is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida. His research focuses on academic and behavioral interventions for youth with high-incidence disabilities. 308 | About the Contributors Theresa Glennon is the Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation at the James E. Beasley School of Law and Temple University, where her teaching and scholarship focuses on the legal rights of children and families, with particular focus on family law, education, race, and disability. Thalia N. C. González is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College. She has authored articles on the roles of community-based lawyers and organizers in such areas as education policy reform, juvenile justice, economic development, and corporate social responsibility. Leslie Joan Harris, the Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, is the coauthor of textbooks about family law and children and the law. She is also the director of the Oregon Child Advocacy Project at the law school. David R. Katner is a Professor of Clinical Law and the Felix J. Dreyfous TeachingFellowinJuvenileLawatTulaneLawSchool.Hehasservedontheboards oftheNationalAssociationofCounselforChildren,theNewOrleansLegalAssistance Corp., the Jefferson Parish Juvenile Services Advisory Board, and the Children ’sBureau.HesitsasanadhocjudgeintheOrleansParishJuvenileCourt. Khary Lazarre-White, JD, is the Executive Director and Cofounder of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol (BHSS), a comprehensive youth development organization founded in 1995 in Harlem. Thomas A. Loughran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. His research interests include deterrence, individuals’ response to sanctioning, and quantitative methods. Edward P. Mulvey is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is currently the principal investigator for a longitudinal study, Pathways to Desistance, examining how serious adolescent offenders make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Kenneth B. Nunn is Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He teaches criminal law and criminal procedure and writes in the areas of race, crime, and juvenile justice issues. About the Contributors | 309 Vanessa Patino is a Senior Researcher at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Center for Girls and Young Women, where she focuses on translating research to improve the system’s response to justice-involved girls. Alex R. Piquero is Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University; Adjunct Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance, Griffith University Australia; and Co-editor, Journal of Quantitative Criminology. His research interests include criminal careers, criminological theory, and quantitative research methods. Lawanda Ravoira is the Director of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Center for Girls and Young Women and is a national expert, author, researcher, and trainer on issues specific to justice-involved girls. Stephen M. Reba is an attorney at the Barton Juvenile Defender Clinic at Emory University School of Law, where he directs an Equal Justice Works project called Appeal for Youth. Sarah Valentine is the Director of Student Affairs and Associate Law Library Professor at CUNY School of Law. She has written extensively on queer children and youth. Randee J. Waldman is a Clinical...