Submitted by: Monika L. Son, Assistant Professor, Chair and Director, Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
To read online: New Terrain in Youth Development: The Promise of a Social Justice Approach
“Popular notions of urban youth have led the public to believe that young people create more problems than possibilities. This idea is most evident in public policy that tends to view them as delinquents, criminals, and the cause of general civic problems. For example, in California, the passage of the Juvenile Justice Crime Bill, which allows courts to try juveniles as adults, and other similar measures across the nation demonstrate how public policy reflects a fear of urban youth.”
This is a library resource accessed using a John Jay login. The article is obtained from the Proquest database: Social Justice, 2002, Vol.29(4), pp.82-95
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