Transforming Our Systems by Understanding The Intersection Between Systemic Racism and Our Youth

The Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center,

The Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy at TSU School of Law,

Generation to Generation and Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center present

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JUNE 15 & 16, 2023 | 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.

This conference is designed for juvenile defense attorneys to be stronger advocates for youth in conflict with the law.

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

• James Bell: Structural Racism and Youth in Conflict with the Law

• Michael Harris: Structural Racism and the School to Prison Pipeline

• Role of Counsel

• Holistic Advocacy and Collaboration with other Professionals

• Recognizing Mental Health Issues

• Transfer

• Disposition Advocacy

RESOURCES

• National Juvenile Defense Standards

• FORENSIC EXERCISE: Disposition Law and Advocacy

• FORENSIC EXERCISE A: Brainstorming a Case Theory

• FORENSIC EXERCISE: Case Theory Chart A: Defense Theories

• FORENSIC EXERCISE: Case Theory Chart B – Theory Evaluation

• ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KEY RESEARCH STUDIES AND POLICY PAPERS FOR DISPOSITION

• Disposition Advocacy - Disposition Planning Chart - BLANK

• Nydia D. Thomas, J.D. Zealous Advocacy: Transforming Our Systems by Understanding the Intersection Between Systemic Racism and Our Youth - RESOURCES: Race and Procedural Justice Issues

• Jason Okonofua, Kimia Saadatian, Joseph Ocampo, Michael Ruiz, and Perfecta Delgado Oxholm, A scalable empathic supervision intervention to mitigate recidivism from probation and parole

• Jason A. Okonofua, David Paunesku, and Gregory M. Walton, Brief intervention to encourage empathic discipline cuts suspension rates in half among adolescents. 

• George Yancy and Joe Feagin, New York Times, American Racism in a White Frame (July 27, 2015)

• Ta-Nahisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, Atlantic (June 2014), http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

• Levinson et al., Guilty by Implicit Bias, 8 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 187, at 206, 2010.

• Gary L. Wells and Elizabeth A. Olson, THE OTHER-RACE EFFECT IN EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION What Do We Do About It?  Psychology Public Policy and Law, 2001, Vol. 7, No. 1, 230-246, https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F1076-8971.7.1.230

• Matthew Ward, The Legacy of Slavery and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates

• Role of Counsel: Bibliography

• Role of Counsel Exercise

• Seeing White: Transcript

• Louise G. Trubek and Jennifer J. Farnham, SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVES: MULTIDISCIPLINARYPRACTICES FOR PEOPLE, 7 Clinical L. Rev. 227 (2000)