Nancy Dowd, the Director, Center on Children and Families, has announced that the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is launching a Juvenile Justice Project:

Our goals are:

* to improve outcomes for children in order to avoid their involvement in the juvenile justice system and maximize their opportunity to become productive, healthy adult citizens;
* to intervene and rehabilitate children at their earliest intersection with the juvenile justice system, consistent with a model of therapeutic jurisprudence and the goal of preventing deeper or continued involvement with the juvenile justice system; and
* to insure adequate representation and due process throughout all stages of the juvenile justice system in order to preserve the integrity of the legal process in the eyes of children.

We are committed to achieving the goal of justice for all children. The project will explore issues through the lens of race, gender, class, and disability, singly and in operation with each other.

We are committed to interdisciplinary research, advocacy, and partnership among academics, practitioners, and policy makers.

We are committed to encouraging the input of, and listening to the voices of, children and youth.

Conference and Call for Papers

They have announced their first conference and a call for papers for Juvenile Justice: Passages, Prevention, and Intervention on Feb. 19 and 20, 2010.

• Juvenile Justice Project Website

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