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>> vii Acknowledgments The idea for this volume was sparked by the anonymous reviewers who evaluated our proposal for the Youth, Crime, and Justice Series that this book now officially launches. Many people deserve our thanks for ensuring that a promising idea became a potentially useful book for those who care about children. These include our authors who presented drafts of their chapters in April 2013 at the Choosing the Future for Juvenile Justice Conference at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV); the session chairs and commentators (in order of appearance, Mary Berkheiser; James Forman Jr.; Ramona Denby Brinson; Anne Traum; Máximo Langer; Steve Wolfson, Clark County District Attorney; William Voy, Clark County Family Court Judge; John Valery White; Fatma Marouf; Michael Kagan; Ann Cammett; Donella Rowe, Deputy District Attorney Clark County; Jean Sternlight; Stacey Tovino; Rebecca Nathanson; and Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada Attorney General); and the audience members who included juvenile justice practitioners and administrators from across the nation. The Boyd School of Law and Berkeley Law provided essential and exemplary support for both the conference and this volume. UNLV Executive Vice President and Provost John Valery White nurtured the initial spark and Elaina Bhattacharyya, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Boyd School of Law, tended the flame. Elaina even found the contrasting images that now appear on the cover. As usual, Toni Mendicino of the Institute for Legal Research at Berkeley Law provided expert assistance in preparing this volume for publication. The viii << Acknowledgments Criminal Justice Research Program at Berkeley Law has supported the book series and its volumes since 2010. Finally, we thank our dedicated editors at NYU Press, Ilene Kalish and Caelyn Cobb, for their stewardship of this project. This included securing timely and constructive evaluations of the entire manuscript by Barry Feld and other anonymous peer reviewers. ...

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