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Creating Bridges for Camden’s Youth: Juvenile Justice Concerns and Local Solutions

Event Summary:

Hosted by the Rutgers School of Law–Camden and the Rutgers–Camden Community Leadership Center (CLC), this three-part program will delve into key issues affecting the New Jersey juvenile justice system. Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel of the Juvenile Law Center, will present a keynote address during lunch. Following the address, the first panel discussion focuses on opportunities for reform and the second panel focuses on preventative measures at the school-based level. Experts will provide insight into specific practices and resources utilized to partner with stakeholders involved in the juvenile justice system. After the discussions, please stay for a reception sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity (CIED) in the Stedman Gallery, which is exhibiting “Juvenile in Justice,” a collection of photographs of juveniles in prison facilities by Richard Ross.

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Event Details:

Tuesday, March 24, 2015
12:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Outline:
12:00 – 12:30 Registration
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch and Keynote Address
1:45 – 4:00 Panel Discussions
4:00 – 5:00 CIED Reception

Main Event: Multi-Purpose Room, Rutgers–Camden Campus Center, 326 Penn St., Camden, NJ 08102

Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity Reception: Stedman Gallery, Fine Arts Building, 314 Linden St., Camden, NJ 08102

Keynote Address: Marsha Levick
Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center

Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, co-founded Juvenile Law Center in 1975. Throughout her legal career, Levick has been an advocate for children’s and women’s rights and is a nationally recognized expert in juvenile law. Levick oversees Juvenile Law Center’s litigation and appellate docket. She has successfully litigated challenges to unlawful and harmful laws, policies and practices on behalf of children in both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Levick has authored or co-authored numerous appellate and amicus briefs in state and federal appeals courts throughout the country, including many before the US Supreme Court, and has argued before both state and federal appellate courts in Pennsylvania and numerous other jurisdictions.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

More information contact Matthew Closter, Community Leadership Center (CLC)
at matthew.closter@rutgers.edu p.856-225-6923

New book by CURE affiliated scholar Lauren Silver: “System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation”

Lauren J. Silver is Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. She is a critical ethnographer whose work lies at the intersection of the sociology and anthropology of youth, feminist methodologies, and analyses of urban systems.

Based on her practice and two years of ethnography, “System Kids” considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate an urban child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. The work demonstrates how institutional “silos” construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on young women the system was intended to help.

Dr. Silver will give a CURE seminar talk / book signing on Friday, April 3. Books will be available for purchase. More details to follow.

Next CURE seminar – Alan Mallach, Friday, February 27

Please join us for our next CURE seminar:

Regeneration and Inequality in US Post-Industrial Cities

Alan Mallach

senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington DC

Urban regeneration is a reality in US cities, and during the past 10 to 15 years has spread from coastal cities like Washington DC and San Francisco to the nation’s historically industrial cities, including Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, slowing and in some cases reversing decades of population and job loss. At the same time, as these cities have seen renewed growth and redevelopment, they have also become more spatially, economically and racially polarized, as some parts of cities have seen revival but others continued, even accelerated, decline. Based on my ongoing research into the changes in the nation’s post-industrial cities, I will describe the recent trends in these cities, analyze some of the salient forces driving these trends, and offer some thoughts about the challenges they represent for social and public policy.

Friday, February 27, 2015 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served

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CURE seminars are free and open to the public. No registration is required.
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New article by CURE affiliated scholar Joan Maya Mazelis

Joan Maya Mazelis (2015). “I got to try to give back: How Reciprocity Norms in a Poor People’s Organization Influence Members’ Social Capital.” Journal of Poverty 19 (1): 109-131.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2014.979458

CURE project on neighborhood change in Camden makes news!

“As Camden leaders tout a budding renaissance in the city, one Rutgers-Camden project will be keeping an objective eye by tracking neighborhood changes in the Cramer Hill section.” (JONATHAN LAI, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER POSTED: Saturday, January 31, 2015)

20150131_inq_jcamden31z-a — Rutgers University-Camden MPA grad (‘2014) Zaid Mazahreh and current MPA grad student Danielle Davis

JCAMDEN31 — Zaid Mazahreh (right) and Danielle Davis survey the Cramer Hill neighborhood of Camden, inputting information in their iPhones as part of the Camden Neighborhood Change Study.