Implementing a Gender-Based Arts Program for Juvenile Offenders

Jill Leslie Rosenbaum is a Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D in 1983 from SUNY-Albany. Since that time she has published more than 30 articles and book chapters on a variety of aspects of female delinquency. In addition, she has conducted numerous program evaluations throughout California, and was the Principal Investigator on the statewide “Transition to Outcomes Based Evaluation: Victims of Crime” for Battered Women, Child Abuse, and Rape Crisis Programs. Dr. Rosenbaum has also worked extensively with the Center for Collaboration, has served on the Orange County Juvenile Justice Commission, and is a Past President of the Western Society of Criminology. She received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC Division of Women and Crime. Shelley Spivack is an Attorney/Referee with the Genesee County Family Court and a Lecturer in the Criminal Justice and Women and Gender Programs at UM- Flint. She received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and M.A.from UM-Flint. She is the Director of the Buckham/GVRC Share Arts Project and is the President of the Referees Association of Michigan.

1. Program Overview of Visual Arts and Spoken Word Poetry Workshops in Juvenile Detention Facility 2. Literature Reviews 3. Evolution of the Program 4. The Second Time Around: Arts Workshops for Female Juvenile Offenders 5. The Third Experience with Arts-Based Programming 6. Response to the Program from Youth and Criminal Justice Professionals 7. Recommendations for Replication of Program Outcomes