SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting
Date: Friday, August 8
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 025: Juvenile Justice and Systems of Surveillance
Room: Indiana Room
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Organizer &
Presider: Paul D. Steele, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico
Description: This session will present papers that address issues in the juvenile justice system as it interfaces with other youth institutions such as education and social services, and the role of the system in surveillance of youth. Authors are encouraged to discuss a range of topics from the history of surveillance approaches to the experiences of youth in the system, program evaluation, collateral consequences of surveillance, and more.
Papers:
“Convergence and Combustion: A Critical Exploration of the Troubled Teen Industry,” Brenna Elisabeth Jones, Pavel Ahmed, Joshua H. Stout and Kaitlyn J. Selman, Illinois State University
“Conceptualizing the Receipt of Unfair School Discipline through a Betrayal Trauma Lens,” Charles Bell, Illinois State University
“Decriminalizing or Reassembling Schools? Implications of Removing Police from Schools for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in School-based Referrals to Law Enforcement,” Catalina Valdez, Benjamin W. Fisher and Abigail J. Beneke, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Effect of Juvenile Detention Center Admittance on Recidivism in Adulthood,” Courtney Rose Mallon, Wilkes University
“Evaluating Health Services in Juvenile Detention,” Amanda C. Ball, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University
“Reflections on Surveillance and Intervention with at-risk Youth: The Connection between Juvenile Justice and Social Service Systems in Six Studies,” Paul D. Steele, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico