In the Meantime: The Past and Future of Juvenile Justice (Non-CE)

Overview

Dr. Tanenhaus will discuss the history of American juvenile justice from the passage in 1899 of Illinois’s “An Act to Regulate the Treatment and Control of Dependent, Neglected, and Delinquent Children” to our living present. By doing so, he will provide a historical framework for the conference’s urgent consideration of the nature of reform and the future of child welfare in the United States.

Objectives

1. Participants will learn why Illinois has long been considered by scholars to be the birthplace of modern juvenile justice.
   
2. Participants will learn how the meaning of juvenile justice has narrowed over time.
   
3. Participants will learn that the debate about whether to reform or abolish systems of family regulation is neither recent nor unprecedented.

Registration and CEU Information

• Register here for the Non-CE version.
• Please see the CE version if you need CEs
• The in-person and live webinar will be held November 14, 2024, from 6:30pm - 7:30pm
• Once registered, you will be able to access the course site to complete the Zoom registration to receive the link for the webinar.

Presenter: David S. Tanenhaus

David S. Tanenhaus is Professor of History and the James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an internationally recognized scholar of juvenile law, a former editor of the journal Law and History Review, and the author or editor of seven books, including The Constitutional Rights of Children and Juvenile Justice in the Making.