Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman
Although boys engage in more delinquent and criminal acts than do girls, female delinquency is on the rise. In 1980, boys were four times as likely as girls to be arrested; today they are only twice as likely to be arrested. In this article...
Jeffrey Fagan
Jeffrey Fagan
Rising juvenile crime rates during the 1970s and 1980s spurred state legislatures across the country to exclude or transfer a significant share of offenders under the age of eighteen to the jurisdiction of the criminal court, essentially re...
Alex R Piquero
Alex R Piquero
For many years, notes Alex Piquero, youth of color have been overrepresented at every stage of the U.S. juvenile justice system. As with racial disparities in a wide variety of social indicators, the causes of these disparities are not imme...
Improving professional judgments of risk and amenability in juvenile justice [0.03%]
改善司法领域中针对青年的风险和可矫正性的职业判断
Edward P Mulvey,Anne-Marie R Iselin
Edward P Mulvey
The dual requirement to ensure community safety and promote a youthful offender's positive development permeates policy and frames daily practice in juvenile justice. Balancing those two demands, explain Edward Mulvey and Anne-Marie Iselin,...
Elizabeth S Scott,Laurence Steinberg
Elizabeth S Scott
Elizabeth Scott and Laurence Steinberg explore the dramatic changes in the law's conception of young offenders between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. At the dawn of the juvenile court era, they note...
David Stern
David Stern
David Stern argues that some basic features of the American high school must be modified if it is to serve all students successfully. He notes, for example, that only three-quarters of U.S. high school students graduate four years after beg...
Melissa Roderick,Jenny Nagaoka,Vanessa Coca
Melissa Roderick
Melissa Roderick, Jenny Nagaoka, and Vanessa Coca focus on the importance of improving college access and readiness for low-income and minority students in urban high schools. They stress the aspirations-attainment gap: although the college...
Tom Corcoran,Megan Silander
Tom Corcoran
The combined effects of standards-based reforms and accountability demands arising from recent technological and economic changes, say Tom Corcoran and Megan Silander, are requiring high schools to accomplish something they have never been ...
U.S. high school curriculum: three phases of contemporary research and reform [0.03%]
美国中学课程：当代研究与改革的三个阶段
Valerie E Lee,Douglas D Ready
Valerie E Lee
Valerie Lee and Douglas Ready explore the influences of the high school curriculum on student learning and the equitable distribution of that learning by race and socioeconomic status. They begin by tracing the historical development of the...
Steve Fleischman,Jessica Heppen
Steve Fleischman
Noting that many of the nation's high schools are beset with major problems, such as low student reading and math achievement, high dropout rates, and an inadequate supply of effective teachers, Steve Fleischman and Jessica Heppen survey a ...