Generating alternatives is key to effective decision-making because it provides the decision-makers in a collective body with an array of choices from...
SERIES: PART 5 OF 7 Part 1: How Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan? Part 2: America’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to...
We described in the previous column how the approach is four-tiered, beginning with collaboration. Collaboration is a term that has been bantered...
Judge Teske first used collective decision-making beginning in 2003 to reform his local juvenile justice system, which has netted an 80% decline...
Social psychology has found that someone may decide someone else's behavior has one of two causes: dispositional or situational. Dispositional attribution assigns...
4.2 million. That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why...
Let’s talk about race. The mention of race stirs emotions that are usually not expressed for fear of the response.
It doesn’t matter how great the teachers are or how much money we throw at education if we don’t configure our systems...
Some things in life can’t be explained. Whether it’s the Bermuda Triangle, the origin of the “Big Bang” or the construction of...
The onset of my unruliness happened when I first noticed girls — I mean really noticed them. I am not saying that...
During my testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights last month, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman...
Our Constitution sets forth in the preamble that one of the goals of government is to “promote the general welfare.” This requires good...
“What happened in your life that made you a passionate advocate for kids?” When Jane Hansen, Information Officer for the Georgia Supreme Court,...
How we respond to young people when they make us mad can make or break them, emotionally and physically. Notwithstanding the studies showing...
I recently trained some probation officers on something called graduated sanctions — a best practice in the supervision of juveniles that gives probation...
Johnny was arraigned for probation violation. He is 15 and of small stature. He was originally placed on probation for residential burglary...
A parent’s failure to take part in their child’s treatment and supervision plan ishurtful — the child, for the most part, is...
Parents can present an enigmatic force in juvenile justice–they can play a positive role in the rehabilitative process or be obstructive. I...
It is a fundamental principle in effective supervision of juvenile offenders that the optimal caseload size should be 25. It is still...
Lennie came to me about 18 months ago, with an attitude. He was a gangbanger and liked to rob people — by...