To Use Evidence-based Programs For Kids, Get the Lawyers Out of Here!By Judge Steven Teske (Part 3)
This is Part 2 in a series describing the issues and problems using plea bargaining in the juvenile justice system. It has been a while...
Oct 25, 202418 min read
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New Book on Restorative Justice Hits the Bookstores on August 24 2024
On August 24, a book dedicated to Gordon Bazemore, a stalwart of restorative justice credited with introducing RJ to the American...
Jul 22, 20241 min read
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Do You Want to Reduce Juvenile Crime in Your Community? Watch Webinar Today on How a School-Justice Partnership Will Make It Happen
This is a short blog to get this important webinar out. I will be sitting on a panel put together by the US Department of Justice and the...
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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Plea Bargaining Harms Both Guilty and Innocent Kids
By Judge Steven Teske (Ret.) This is Part 2 in a series describing the issues and problems using plea bargaining in the juvenile justice...
Feb 9, 202414 min read
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The Contrariness of Plea Bargaining in Juvenile Courts (Part One)
I read this past week in the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper about a 10-year-old Black child sentenced by a juvenile court judge...
Dec 27, 202314 min read
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The Heavy Price Society Pays for the No-Daddy Factor
Judge Steve Teske (Ret.) Lennie came to me about 18 months ago, with an attitude. He was a gangbanger and liked to rob people — by force....
Nov 30, 20234 min read
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