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BACKGROUND
Francine Sherman is a clinical professor and Director of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School. She speaks widely about girls in the justice system and contextual legal services for system involved youth and is doing ongoing research into the pathways girls take into and through justice systems as well as effective practices for attorney’s representing girls. She is a founding member of the Girls’ Justice Initiative and the author of their recent report, Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: Perspectives on Services and Conditions of Confinement. She is a regular contributor to “Women, Girls & Criminal Justice” where she has written about runaway girls, probation practices, and teen prostitution, and legal strategies for attorneys representing young women. She was a contributor to the 2001 ABA and NBA publication Justice by Gender: The Lack of Appropriate Prevention, Diversion and Treatment Alternatives for Girls in the Justice System, and to the 2001 ABA publication America’s Children Still at Risk. She is an ongoing consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative on strategies to reduce the detention of girls nationally and is lead consultant to the Hyams Foundation Girls’ Initiative in Boston. She is the author of the Girls’ volume of the Pathways to Detention Reform series published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (2005). She is co-author, with Marsha Levick, of "When Individual Differences Demand Equal Treatment: An Equal Rights Approach to the Special Needs of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System," 18 Wisc. Women’s L. J. 9 (2003). "Her project is becoming known as a resource for practicing juvenile and delinquency attorneys, as a center for policy research, and as an incubator for training a first generation of multidisciplinary juvenile advocates." -- Boston College Law School Magazine, Spring 1998 EDUCATION RECENT ACTIVITIES Work in Progress: Girls and Juvenile Detention, a forthcoming volume in the Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform series published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Presentations: With Judith B. Tracy, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child; It Takes Two Professionals to Successfully Teach Research and Analysis—A Simulated Class Reflecting a Truly Integrated First-Year Legal Research and Writing Curriculum,” Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Atlanta, GA, in June 2006. "Data, Detention, and Girls" as moderator at the annual meeting of the Annie E. Casey Foundation Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, San Francisco, in December 2004. "Women in Prison in Massachusetts: Maintaining Family Connections," at the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy, Boston, in March 2005. "Are We Meeting the Needs of Adolescent Girls?" as panelist at the MCLE Seventh Annual Juvenile Delinquency and Child Welfare Law Conference in April 2005. Activities: Consulted with the Hyams Foundation to develop and implement its Girls’ Initiative program. Moderated a program entitled "Connecting Girls’ Programs and Girls in Juvenile Justice," a peer-led discussion sponsored by the Girls’ Coalition of Greater Boston in February 2003. Continues as a member of the board of the New England Juvenile Defender Center. Launched the Arts and Entrepreneurship Project for girls in the Massachusetts justice system as a new initiative of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project. Co-sponsor, with the Ella J. Baker House, the College of Criminal Justice of Northeastern University, and the Dorchester (Massachusetts) Community Roundtable, of a two-day conference entitled "Celebrating Boston Girls: Sharing Resources, Building Strengths," at Northeastern University, in Boston, in June 2002. Appointments: Appointed to the Massachusetts Department of Correction Female Offender Review Panel in January. Appointed to the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus Board of Directors for 2005. Other: The Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project was awarded a two-year grant from the Jesse B. Cox Charitable Trust for the Girls Health Passport Project Phase II and a planning grant from the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation for the Massachusetts Health Passport Project. COURSES Fall '09: No courses taught
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