Webcast -- Youth Transferred to Adult Court: The Effect on Public Safety, Recidivism, and Rehabilitation Conference
» Monday,
07/21/2008 12:00
PM (EST)
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Conference Agenda
Monday, July 21, 2008
12:00 p.m. Registration and Opening Remarks
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Opening Remarks & Keynote Speaker (link above): Keynote: Dr. Akiva Liberman, Ph.D., Health Science Administrator, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Wallace J. Mlyniec, Director, Juvenile Justice Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center Jennifer Woolard, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University Heather Pinckney, Deputy Trial Chief, Public Defender Service for D.C. Elizabeth Ryan, Director, Campaign for Youth Justice Reginald Dwayne Betts, Poet and Activist, Formerly Incarcerated at Age 16 Richard A. Ratner, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine Peter Edelman., Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Public Policy; Professor Of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
Santha Sonenberg, Staff Attorney, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia Abigail Turner, Staff Attorney Just Children, Virginia Jamie Rodriguez, Special Education Attorney, Public Defender Service for D. C. Melissa A. H. Nolan, LCSW-C, Director, Juvenile Client Services Division, Maryland Kenneth M. Rogers, MD, MSHS, Director, Child Psychiatry Residency, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland-Baltimore
Covington & Burling 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004-2401 The conference will focus on the findings of the November, 2007 report released by the Center for Disease Center, Effects on Violence of Laws and Policies Facilitating the Transfer of Youth from the Juvenile to the Adult Justice System, and its implications for the field of juvenile justice. Through a systematic review of the published scientific evidence, this report determined that trying youth in the adult criminal justice system significantly increases future rates of violence. On the basis of these findings, the task force issuing the report recommended against laws and policies that facilitate transfer.
The conference was hosted by the law firm of Covington & Burling and jointly sponsored by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Bar Association Criminal Justice and Individual Rights Committee, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, DC Lawyers for Youth, Georgetown Law Juvenile Justice Clinic, Campaign for Youth Justice, Justice for DC Youth, the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center, the National Juvenile Defender Center, and the Public Defender Service or the District of Columbia.
