Symposium: "The Intersection of Juvenile Justice and Poverty"

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

120 F Street, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

1:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Opening Remarks

Peter Edelman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

1:15 - 1:45 p.m.

Keynote Address - "The Paradox of Juvenile Justice and Poverty"

Robert Schwartz, Executive Director, Juvenile Law Center

1:45 - 3:00 p.m.

Panel 1 - Supports for At-Risk Youth: Education, Health and Housing

James Forman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)

Deborah Gordon Klehr, Staff Attorney, Education Law Center

Catherine A. Gallagher, Associate Professor, Justice, Law and Crime Policy Program, George Mason University

Michael A. Corriero, Executive Director, Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City

3:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Panel 2 - Poverty and Equity in the Juvenile Justice System

Name, Eduardo Ferrer, Executive Director, D.C. Lawyers for Youth (Moderator)

Katayoon Majd, Senior Staff Attorney, National Juvenile Defender Center

Neelum Arya, Director, Research & Policy, Campaign for Youth Justice

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Panel 3 - Strategies for Breaking the Cycle of Offending and Poverty

Carol Chodroff, Juvenile Justice Policy Attorney (Moderator)

David Altschuler, Principal Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies

Mark Soler, Executive Director, Center for Children's Law and Policy

Marc Schindler, Chief of Staff, D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services

The participants will examine how the social factors that often accompany low socio-economic status can fuel patterns of offending and reoffending, how youth with different levels of wealth frequently have very different experiences within the juvenile justice system and what strategies can be employed both within and outside the juvenile justice system to break the cycle of offending and poverty. 

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Georgetown Law Juvenile Justice Clinic, Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and American Constitution Society for Law & Policy.

A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.