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“Juvenile Justice Reform: Forty Years After Gault
October 26 & 27, 2007
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley




Friday October 26, 2007
 

Welcome and Opening Remarks


 

Plenary: Juvenile Justice: A View from the Bench


 

Reforming Juvenile Corrections in California

  • Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
  • Karen Pank, Executive Director, Chief Probation Officers of California
  • Bernard Warner, Chief Deputy Secretary, Division of Juvenile Justice, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
  • Moderator: David Steinhart, Director, Juvenile Justice Program, Commonweal
 

Juvenile Justice, Child Welfare and Mental Health Systems Overlap

  • Shay Bilchik, Director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems Integration
  • Gwen Foster, Senior Program Officer, The California Endowment
  • Michael Wald, Professor Emeritus, Stanford Law School
  • Moderator: Joan Hollinger, Lecturer in Residence, UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
 

Disproportionate Minority Confinement

  • James Bell, Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity
  • Raquel Mariscal, Senior Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Tina Borner, Director of Detention Alternative Programs, Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
  • Moderator: David Onek, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice

 

Lunch Speaker

  • Bernardine Dohrn, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School and Director, Children and Family Justice Center

Alternatives to Incarceration

 

Legal Representation of Juveniles

  • Jonathan Laba, Deputy Public Defender, Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office
  • Patricia Lee, Managing Attorney, Juvenile Division, San Francisco Public Defender’s Office
  • Winston Peters, Assistant Public Defender, Los Angeles Public Defender’s Office
  • Moderator: Erin Murphy, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
 

Restorative Justice

  • Gordon Bazemore, Professor, Florida Atlantic University
  • Fania Davis, Adjunct Professor, New College of California School of Law
  • Hon. Arnold Rosenfield, Sonoma County Superior Court
  • Moderator: Mary Louise Frampton, Director, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice


Plenary: Juvenile Justice in the Media

  • Karen de Sa, Staff Writer, The San Jose Mercury News
  • James Sterngold, Freelance Journalist
  • Moderator: Rob Gunnison, Lecturer in Residence, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism



Saturday October 27, 2007

Welcome

  • David Onek, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice

 

Plenary: Youth Voices on Juvenile Justice

  • Perry Jones, Youth Advocate, Detention Diversion Advocacy Project
  • Stephanie Sanchez, Participant, Youth Justice Institute
  • Moderator: Lenore Anderson, Director of Public Safety, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums

 

Lunch Speaker

  • Lateefah Simon, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow; Director, Reentry Programs, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office

 

Reforming Juvenile Detention

  • Sue Burrell, Staff Attorney, Youth Law Center
  • Judy Cox, Chief Probation Officer, Santa Clara County
  • Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Coordinator, Pima County, AZ
  • Moderator: Jason Ziedenberg, Executive Director, Justice Policy Institute
 

Trying Juveniles as Adults

 

Girls in the Juvenile Justice System


 

Plenary: Juvenile Justice: Legislators' Perspective

 


 


For more information, please contact Rachel Diggs at (510) 643-7025 or rdiggs@law.berkeley.edu

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