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Tool Kit for Educators
Tool Kit for Educators
Below are some resources that we found to be helpful when creating this unit.
References for additional information:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation. “Juvenile Detention Explained.” The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 14 Nov. 2020, www.aecf.org/blog/what-is-juvenile-detention.
Philip W. Harris. “A Century of Juvenile Justice.” National Institute of Justice, nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/century-juvenile-justice. Accessed 17 Oct. 2024.
Barnert, Elizabeth S, et al. “How Does Incarcerating Young People Affect Their Adult Health Outcomes?” Pediatrics, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Feb. 2017, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260153/.
Mendel, Richard. “System Reforms to Reduce Youth Incarceration: Why We Must Explore Every Option before Removing Any Young Person from Home.” The Sentencing Project, 20 Mar. 2024, www.sentencingproject.org/reports/system-reforms-to-reduce-youth-incarceration-why-we-must-explore-every-option-before-removing-any-young-person-from-home/.
RE;, Barnert ES;Perry R;Morris. “Juvenile Incarceration and Health.” Academic Pediatrics, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26548359/#:~:text=Incarcerated%20youth%20face%20disproportionately%20higher%20morbidity%20and%20higher,engagement%20in%20high-risk%20behaviors%2C%20and%20underlying%20health%20disparities. Accessed 17 Oct. 2024.
Rovner, Joshua. “Youth Justice by the Numbers.” The Sentencing Project, 14 Aug. 2024, www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/youth-justice-by-the-numbers/#footnote-3.
“Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System.” Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System | Youth.Gov, youth.gov/youth-topics/juvenile-justice/youth-involved-juvenile-justice-system. Accessed 17 Oct. 2024.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic
This video explores the life a youth experiences when going through and leaving the juvenile justice system. This can help students analyze and sympathize with the experience a youth in the justice system had to face with all the disparities, injustices, and struggles they faced in and out of the system.
PBS New Hour
PBS New Hour
This video engages students in interpreting and analyzing alternative programs to mass juvenile incarceration.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic
This video explores the life a youth lives in and out of the juvenile justice system when they have experienced an alternative program to juvenile detention or incarceration. This can help students build their own critical thinking for how they would build their own alternative program.
Information from Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement: 1997-2021.
Information from Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement: 1997-2021.
The World Prison Brief website provides information and data on prison systems around the world. https://www.prisonstudies.org/
Alternative assignments and projects.
Alternative assignments and projects.
These are a few alternative projects students can complete if change to original lesson plans are necessary.
Lesson 1
During research project:
Students will complete the facilities research project in lesson 1. Before students present projects, students should research the same specifications of an alternative program. Students will compare and contrast these programs in a 3 circle comparison diagram that they will include in their presentation.
Lesson 2
Students will present JIGSAW discussion activity alternatively to posting their discussion to the PADLET. They will present as JIGSAW groups created in PADLET.
Lesson 3
Before the Public Service Announcement:
Students will construct and draw their own alternative program to juvenile residential facitilty. They must make a facility with specifications for requirements (include learning environments, employee areas, intake/lobby, etc). Then they will write a series of policies they would implement and explain how their program will help decrease recidivism rates and create more positive impacts on youth than the current system many countries have today.
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