Roundtable: Rutgers at 50: Contributions to Understanding and Responding to Youth Crime

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

This panel brings together discussants across multiple career stages with varied interests and experiences, including both research and practice. Panelists, who comprise Rutgers University faculty, students, and alumni, will describe their own work and place it the context of the School of Criminal Justice’s important contribution to understanding and responding to youth crime. Topics to be covered include youth violence prevention, juvenile court and probation, interventions like “Scared Straight,” use of evidence-based practices, and the enduring impacts of juvenile justice involvement on youth and adolescents. Panelists will consider these questions in the context of current issues and future directions in responding to delinquency.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chairs

• Chris Sullivan, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Craig Ortega, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department

Discussants

• James Finckenauer, Rutgers University

• Kathleen Powell, Drexel University

• Brielle Savage, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark

• Joel Miller, Rutgers University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice 50th Anniversary Planning Committee