“You’re on the Right Track!” Using Graduated Response Systems to Address Immaturity of Judgment and Enhance Youths’ Capacities to Successfully Complete Probation

Volume 88, No. 4, Summer 2016

By Naomi E.S. Goldstein, Associate Professor of Psychology at Drexel University; Amanda NeMoyer, doctoral candidate in the JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology at Drexel University; Elizabeth Gale-Bentz, doctoral student in clinical psychology at Drexel University; Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel for the Juvenile Law Center; Jessica Feierman, Associate Director of the Juvenile Law Center and adjunct faculty member at University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Law Schools [PDF]

After describing the current state of juvenile probation in the United States, this Article proposes a developmentally informed probation model utilizing existing research on adolescent development and behavior modification. It then considers the broader legal and policy contexts of such a model: How can a model geared toward changing youths’ behavior be constructed to ensure adequate due process, support family involvement, and avoid unintended consequences (e.g., net widening, racial and ethnic disparities)?

Author: Jasnoor Hundal In early August 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision, In re Purdue Pharma L.P., and granted certiorari to hear oral argument in December of 2023. The parties were asked to brief and argue “[w]hether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a […]

Randy Kominsky is a member of Temple Law’s Class of 1979. Mr. Kominsky was a staff editor for Volume 51 and an associate research editor for Volume 52 of Temple Law Review. His case note, Housing Discrimination – The Appropriate Evidentiary Standard for Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, was published in 1978.[1] After graduating, he moved […]

Disrupting Hierarchies In Legal Education: Increasing Access By Supporting First Gen Success Katharine Traylor Schaffzin, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law The first-generation college students of Generation Z will challenge all of higher education, including legal education, to reconsider the delivery of education. Fortunately, undergraduate institutions have been […]