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Featured Films
- They Call Us Monsters (streaming, Kanopy) Juan, Jarad and Antonio, all young teens, face decades in prison. While the gravity of their crimes is great, these young men are still simply teenagers. Do they deserve a second chance? To some, they're kids. To others, they're monsters. THEY CALL US MONSTERS explores the complicated experience of juvenile offenders.
- The Pushouts (streaming, Alexander Street Press) "I was in prison before I was even born.” So begins the story of Victor Rios - a high school dropout, gang member, and three time felon by 15. But when a teacher’s quiet persistence, a mentor’s moral conviction, and his best friend’s murder converge, Rios’ path takes an unlikely turn. Two decades later Rios - by then a 36 year-old tenured UC professor, author and national thought leader on the school-to-prison pipeline - gets a call.
- Second Chance Kids (streaming, Academic Video Online) The film examines the impact of the order to re-evaluate thousands of juvenile murder cases and follows two of the first convicts to be released.
- Juvenile Rehabilitation (streaming, Academic Video Online) Describes innovative rehabilitation programs for juvenile offenders
- Motivational Interviewing in Juvenile Justice Settings (streaming, Kanopy) Without a strong alliance and clear boundaries, mandated clients will often shut down or act out—especially if they are teenagers. How do you work to meet both institutional and clinical goals? MI expert Ali Hall demonstrates how to use this collaborative approach in juvenile justice settings.
- Preventing Youth Crime (streaming, Academic Video Online) More and more children are being criminalised, but what can schools do to try and prevent children from getting involved in crime and entering the criminal justice system?
- Engaging Juvenile Offenders in a Therapeutic Relationship (streaming, Academic Video Online) This video addresses the unique challenges of engaging Juveniles who have been adjudicated and then mandated to treatment.
- Children Who Kill (streaming, Academic Video Online) Behind the locked doors of Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre, which houses England's most difficult and dangerous children. Three teenage murderers at different stages of their life sentences tell their own stories.
- Beyond Scared Straight (streaming, Academic Video Online) Beyond Scared Straight : Maryland Correctional Institution is visited by five teens.
- Murder on a Sunday morning (streaming, Kanopy) When a 15-year-old black male is arrested for the murder of Mary Ann Stephens, everyone involved in the case--from investigators to journalists--is ready to condemn him, except for his public defence lawyer, Patrick McGuiness. A true tale of murder and injustice.
- Tackling Gang Culture (streaming, Academic Video Online) Schools are becoming increasingly important hubs of the community, and part of their role is to equip young people with the confidence to refuse to become involved in gangs. But are the streets really so rough, and how can schools combat young people’s fears?
- Locked Inside A Nightmare (streaming, Academic Video Online) Wackenhut is the leader of a trend in America putting prisons in the hands of private companies, which say they can offer better rehabilitation services and counseling. But 60 Minutes examines what is really happening at Wackenhut Corporation's various juvenile detention centers. Scott Pelley reports.
- Juvenile Court: The Complex Cases at the Memphis Juvenile Court (streaming, Kanopy) Shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
- 21 Jump Street. The complete series, seasons 1-5 (dvd) "Officer Tom Hanson leads his band of agents in the special Jump Street division by going undercover to infiltrate local schools to put a stop to crime and keep students safe from corrupt influences"-
- Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (dvd) The Oscar and Emmy award-winning SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978) recounted a day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. Calling themselves "the Lifers," these convicts gave the youths an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, sharing every ugly detail. This follow-up documentary revisit SCARED STRAIGHT!, to see the lasting effects of the teenagers/convicts encounter, hosted by Danny Glover
- Sweet Sixteen (dvd) With his mother serving time for crimes committed by her drug-pushing boyfriend, a Glaswegian teen (Martin Compston) vows to make a better life for her after she's released from prison on his 16th birthday. In order to earn enough cash to set them up in a new place, Compston embarks on a crime spree that could land him in hotter water than his troubled mom. Ken Loach's gritty coming-of-age drama features subtitles due to the actors' thick Scottish accents.
- Thirteen (dvd) Director Catherine Hardwicke co-wrote with then 13-year-old Nikki Reed (who also co-stars) this semi-autobiographical portrait of teenage rebellion, which is about a young girl who falls into the world of drugs, petty crime and anonymous sex. Evan Rachel Wood plays the friend and Holly Hunt plays the distraught and concerned mother. DVD
Podcasts
- Caught Mass incarceration starts young. These kids say the system changes them forever.
- The Appeal: Justice in America: Juvenile Justice America has one of the harshest juvenile justice systems on the planet. It is the only country in the world that sentences children to life without parole. On this episode, we focus on America’s juvenile justice system: what it looks like, who it’s housing, and how we got here.
- Campaign for Youth Justice: Voices of Youth Justice The Campaign for Youth Justice is focused on ending the practice of prosecuting, sentencing, and incarcerating youth under the age of 18 in the adult criminal justice system. The Voices of Youth Justice podcast is intended to uplift the stories of youth who have been charged as adults or spent time in adult facilities and their families.
- Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: The Hubcast We are focusing on immigrant youth in the juvenile justice system. Over three episodes, we will discuss demographics, relief options, consequences that stem from system involvement, policy recommendations from experts in the field, and more.
- Criminal Injustice: Transforming Juvenile Probation When juveniles face criminal charges, most end up on probation. This should put their young lives on track. But too often, it’s just another set of rules, and kids fall into deeper trouble. Can we transform probation for juveniles, so more kids don’t become adult offenders?
- Criminal Injustice; Why We Don't Sentence Kids to Die Anymore Since they began in the early 20th century, juvenile courts always treated kids differently – as people who were young enough to change. This began to change in the 1980s and 1990s when crime really spiked and we began putting some kids in adult courts and prisons – even giving life without parole and death penalties. Marsha Levick, deputy director and chief counsel for the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia, explains what changed.
- Suave A podcast about the system that sentences juveniles to life in prison, a story of incarceration, redemption, and the unusual relationship between a journalist and a source.
