Securing Our Children's Future

"...a good addition to a policy course on juvenile justice or to a class studying cross-organization change." -Candice M. Kane, Social Service Review, 12/1/2003

"This book brings together some of the country's very best thinkers on criminal justice and youth violence issues. It offers most importantly a perfect blend of practice and research: providing practitioners and academics new thoughtful ideas about the next set of challenges. Whether the reader polices, prosecutes, adjudicates, or writes about it, he or she will benefit from this thoughtful analysis." -Stephen Goldsmith, special adviser to the president for faith-based and nonprofit initiatives, 7/1/2002

"Can we meet the current challenge of youth violence? A group of forward-looking practitioners and academics has come together to say yes. They offer us clear direction and a basis for hope as they lay out the ways in which public institutions and civic enterprises can rethink and reinvent their responses. As importantly, they convince us that we know enough to act and that our actions can make a difference now." -Ellen Schall, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

"Gary Katzmann has brought together an outstanding collection of authors representing the critical components of the juvenile justice system from intake through corrections in an effort to provide a comprehensive picture of that system and a glimpse of what has worked best. He has succeeded. Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence is a well-researched book packed with creative ideas for all practitioners in the juvenile justice system." -Judge Leonard Edwards, Santa Clara County Superior Court

"Experience teaches us that there is no single solution to the vexing problem of youth violence. By bringing together academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence has made a
critical contribution toward our understanding of what we must do if we are to combat youth violence successfully. All who are truly interested in learning what needs to be done to formulate an effective youth violence and juvenile justice strategy must read this important
book.
Experience teaches us that there is no single solution to the vexing problem of youth violence. By bringing together academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence has made a
critical contribution toward our understanding of what we must do if we are to combat youth violence successfully. All who are truly interested in learning what needs to be done to formulate an effective youth violence and juvenile justice strategy must read this important
book.
" -Eliot Spitzer, attorney general, New York State