JUVENILE JUSTICE SERVICE PROJECT       June 23 – July 1Chicago, Illinois                                                                                                                Open to current 9^th – 11^th grade female students$180 plus cost of transportationThe Juvenile Justice Project will provide high school students a perspective of the experience of a teenager in our nation’s criminal justice system.  In an urban setting and an ethnically diverse population, the students will consider the context in which many of our nation’s teen-agers live.  Students will look at different support structures that work to help young people who are at risk for many different reasons (prevention programs, alternative high schools etc).  Students will learn about how the State of Illinois makes decisions about the prosecution of juvenile offenders as well as particular case studies.  Students will visit Cook County Jail, adult and juvenile court, Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center, and a peer jury program in the Chicago Public School system.  They will also meet with advocates for juvenile justice, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, juvenile probation officers, social workers, educators, teenagers who have been in the justice system, college students doing research in juvenile justice, and others who have a role in the justice system, in the communities, and in the lives of young people.

Jane Steinfels, Sacred Heart Schools, 6250 Sheridan RD. Chicago, IL 60660
Tel: 773-262-4446  Fax: 773-262-7178 
Email: jane.steinfels@shschicago.org