{"id":5278,"date":"2021-10-26T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=251652"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:19:14","slug":"the-rage-of-innocence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/clinics\/our-clinics\/juvenile-justice-clinic\/racial-justice\/the-rage-of-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rage of Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her book published in September 2021, Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic &amp; Initiative Director Kris Henning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/623467\/the-rage-of-innocence-by-kristin-henning\/?link_id=1&amp;can_id=be116c134ced8806aac7a2046fb4752e&amp;source=email-youre-invited-the-dehumanization-of-children-of-color-rethinking-policing-and-policy-2&amp;email_referrer=email_1214899&amp;email_subject=dir-kristin-hennings-new-book-on-criminalizing-black-youth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1.jpg\" alt=\"Rage of Innocence\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-740x740.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2021\/07\/RageOfInnocence_Reveal_1-980x980.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a> confronts America\u2019s irrational and manufactured fears of Black youth and makes a compelling case that our nation\u2019s obsession with policing and incarcerating Black America begins with Black children. Unlike White\u00a0youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and denied the privilege of healthy adolescent development.<\/p>\n<p>Weaving together powerful narratives and persuasive data, Kris examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, the demonization of Black fashion, hair, and music, and the discriminatory impact of police in schools. <em>The Rage of Innocence<\/em> lays bare the long-term consequences of racism and trauma that Black children experience at the hands of police and their vigilante surrogates and explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear and resent the police.<\/p>\n<p>Especially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality,\u00a0<em>The Rage of Innocence<\/em> is an essential book for our moment.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rageofinnocence.com\">Learn more and get your copy!<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Media Links<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her book published in September 2021, Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic &amp; Initiative Director Kris Henning confronts America\u2019s irrational and manufactured fears of Black youth and makes a compelling case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1855,"featured_media":0,"parent":5230,"menu_order":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-5278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5278\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/experiential-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}