Publications

Several research studies, projects, and legal resources are available from the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project. These publications are free for educational academic purposes, all rights reserved.

• The Role of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Child Welfare Court Involvement in Massachusetts (forthcoming 2006)
• JRAP Guide to Medical Consent for Minors in Massachusetts
• Taking on the Challenge: Phase I of the Hyams Foundation Girls' Initiative, The Hyams Foundation (2006)
• Pathways to Detention Reform, Detention Reform and Girls: Challenges and Solutions, Annie E. Casey Foundation (2006)
• Levick, M. & Sherman, F. When Individual Differences Demand Equal Treatment: An Equal Rights Approach to the Special Needs of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, 18 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 9-50 (Spring 2003)
• Girls in the Justice System: Perspectives on Services and Conditions of Confinement, April 2003, a Publication of the Girls' Justice Initiative

"They want us to make mistakes so that they can lock us up. That's what they do. They want us to be failures. That's what it seems like. They don't know. We are their future. They aren't going to be nothing without us. Do you know what I mean? When they get old were going to run this. They need us and they don't realize that."

S., age 15