Course Readings and Video

  1. Watch: Frontline Film Poor Kids Documentary – Part 1
    Films Media Group, and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Poor Kids. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), 2012, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poor-kids/

  1. Watch: Frontline Film Poor Kids Documentary – Part 2
    Films Media Group, and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Poor Kids. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), 2012, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/poor-kids/
  2. Read: Priyanka Boghani (November 22, 2017) Frontline: How Poverty Can Follow Children Into Adulthood

  1. Read: NUNEZ, R. (2001). Family Homelessness in New York City: A Case Study. Political Science Quarterly, 116(3), 367–379. https://brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?&url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307%2F798021 [off-campus login needed]
  2. Read: Marion Perry, Rachel Kreinces Stier and Lillian Wan Principal Editors, Introductory Guide to the New York City Family Court, N.Y.C. Bar Ass’n, Cttee. on Family Court and Family Law (Feb. 2012), (pages 5 – 17) https://www.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20072254-IntroductoryGuidetoNYCFamilyCourt.pdf

  1. “H.R.3734 – 104th Congress (1995-1996): Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.” Congress.gov, Library of Congress, 22 August 1996, https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/3734. The actual law.
  2. Anon. Making Reasonable Efforts: A Permanent Home for Every Child. (2000). Program for Children, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. ERIC Number: ED439833 http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED439833.pdf
  3. Case shined first light on abuse of children (2009). . New York: New York Times Company. https://brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podcasts-websites/case-shined-first-light-on-abuse-children/docview/2219449703/se-2 [off-campus login needed]
  4. Marion Perry, Rachel Kreinces Stier and Lillian Wan Principal Editors, Introductory Guide to the New York City Family Court, N.Y.C. Bar Ass’n, Cttee. on Family Court and Family Law (Feb. 2012), (pages 18 – 27) https://www.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20072254-IntroductoryGuidetoNYCFamilyCourt.pdf

Watch: Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr

  1. Frontline (posted by @CrimeDocs1) Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr – Documentary
    Full Documentary on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N7JEVsTA1dw?si=3OjtWRjr22cDIi0t
Crime Docs. (Jun 7, 2023) Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr – Documentary https://youtu.be/N7JEVsTA1dw?si=67Z6jnwTw4JuSx0U

Guggenheim, M. (2021). How Racial Politics Led Directly to the Enactment of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: The Worst Law Affecting Families Ever Enacted by Congress. Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 11(3), 711–732. https://doi.org/10.52214/cjrl.v11i3.8749 (License CC by)

  1. Humphrey, Kristen R., et al. “Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Youth and Their Families: Perspectives of Foster Care Providers, Youth with Emotional Disorders, Service Providers, and Judges.” Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2006, pp. 113–32, DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2005.02.011.https://www-sciencedirect-com.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/science/article/pii/S0190740905000836 [off-campus login]
  2. Marion Perry, Rachel Kreinces Stier and Lillian Wan Principal Editors, Introductory Guide to the New York City Family Court, N.Y.C. Bar Ass’n, Cttee. on Family Court and Family Law (Feb. 2012), (pages 28 – 35) https://www.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20072254-IntroductoryGuidetoNYCFamilyCourt.pdf

  1. Nadeem, E., Waterman, J., Foster, J., Paczkowski, E., Belin, T. R., & Miranda, J. (2017). Long-Term Effects of Pre-Placement Risk Factors on Children’s Psychological Symptoms and Parenting Stress Among Families Adopting Children From Foster Care. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 25(2), 67-81. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1177/1063426615621050 [off-campus login]
  2. Albert, A., & Mulzer, A. (2022). Adoption Cannot Be Reformed. Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.52214/cjrl.v12i1.9947 (CC BY 4.0)
  3. Marion Perry, Rachel Kreinces Stier and Lillian Wan Principal Editors, Introductory Guide to the New York City Family Court, N.Y.C. Bar Ass’n, Cttee. on Family Court and Family Law (Feb. 2012), (pages 36 – 48) https://www.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20072254-IntroductoryGuidetoNYCFamilyCourt.pdf

BOSS BATTLE 1 at class time

Mini Quest 1

  1. Ta-Nehisi Coates (June 8, 2015) The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder The Atlantic
  2. Jennifer Gonnerman (June 7, 2015) Kalief Browder 1993-2015 The New Yorker
  3. Haerens, M. (Ed.). (2013). Chapter 4: Juvenile Justice System Reforms. In Juvenile crime. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. Juvenile Crime, ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5536363 [off-campus login]

  1. Krohn, M. D., & Lane, J. (Eds.). (2015). The handbook of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1895475 [off-campus login]
  2. Kennedy, T. D., Detullio, D., & Millen, D. H. (2020). Juvenile delinquency : theory, trends, risk factors and interventions. Springer. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2403785 [off-campus login]

  1. Watch: Frontline Second Chance Kids
    Films Media Group, and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Second Chance Kids. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), (May 2, 2017) (Season 2017: Episode 11), https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/second-chance-kids/

  1. Review and Jeopardy Study Game
  2. Mini Quest 2

  1. BOSS BATTLE 3

  1. EXPLORER QUEST – FINAL PRESENTATIONS