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Category Archives: Juveniles
Keeping a Grim Tally in Juvenile Court
One recent morning I sat in juvenile delinquency court on the fifth floor of the county courthouse in Durham, N.C., and kept a bleak tally. A 14-year-old boy admitted to a larceny charge for having stolen a video console and … Continue reading
Kiddie Court is No Joke for Juveniles
A client of mine, who I’ll call Deanna, was a 15-year-old in the ninth grade at a public high school in North Carolina. She lived with her mother, who was unemployed, and two younger brothers in government-subsidized housing. She had … Continue reading
Children in Isolation: The Solitary Confinement of Youth
Ismael Nazario was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., by his mom, a single parent who always emphasized the importance of education and doing well in school. When Ismael was 13, his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. As she underwent chemotherapy … Continue reading
From Turkey Trot to Twitter: Policing Puberty, Purity, and Sex Positivity
Professor Mae Quinn of Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law, who is an expert on criminal and juvenile justice system issues, has a new article that has just been posted to SSRN . I look forward to reading it. … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Juveniles, Legal Scholarship
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When Reform Fails on the State Level, Turn to Local Advocates
North Carolina is the only state in the U.S. that treats all 16 and 17-year-olds as adults when they are charged with criminal offenses and then denies them the ability to appeal for return to the juvenile system. Although New … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Court, Juveniles, North Carolina, Rehabilitation
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If a society values its children, it must cherish their parents.*
In one of the North Carolina counties in which I practice law, juvenile delinquency court is held every other week. During these sessions, children who have been charged with criminal offenses come before the court to have their matters heard. … Continue reading
Let’s Change How Police Question Young Suspects
When I had been practicing in North Carolina’s juvenile courts for about a year, I represented a client charged in the same case as a 13-year-old special-education student named J.D.B. I remember sitting in a large courtroom and watching J.D.B.’s public … Continue reading
Posted in Interrogation, Juveniles, State Laws, U.S. Supreme Court
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Join Me at PrawfsBlawg This Month!
Dan Markel (Florida State University Law School) has been asking me for years to guest blog on the always-interesting law professor blog, PrawfsBlawg. Knowing that I’ll never have the time until I make the time, I finally agreed to join in … Continue reading
Indiana Juvenile Justice Blog
Earlier this week I received an email from Kaarin Lueck, public defender in Richmond, Indiana, and nationally-known expert in juvenile delinquency and criminal defense. She very kindly shared the following: Prof. Birckhead: I felt compelled to reach out to thank … Continue reading
Posted in Blogosphere, Criminal /Juvenile Defense, Delinquency, Juvenile Court, Juveniles
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Closing the Widening Net: The Rights of Juveniles at Intake
Should juveniles have more, fewer, the same or different procedural rights than are accorded to adults? This question, posed by Professor Arnold Loewy for a panel at the 2013 Texas Tech Law Review Symposium on Juveniles and Criminal Law, requires … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal /Juvenile Defense, Delinquency, Juvenile Court, Juveniles, Poverty, Race, Class, Ethnicity, Right to Counsel, School to Prison Pipeline, U.S. Supreme Court
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