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UTAH YOUTH SUICIDE STUDY
No full textOne of the most devastating consequences of undiagnosed, untreated, or under-treated mental illness is suicide. Utah Youth Suicide Study findings demonstrated that 63% of youth suicide completers had contact with juvenile courts. Utah's Juvenile Court provided opportunities for suicide prevention, as nearly 70% of juvenile offenders suffer with mental illness. Youth in the
intervention group of this pilot study, who received appropriate mental health screening, referral for treatment and rapid access to family-oriented psychiatric outpatient and in-home family services demonstrated significant mental health status improvement, as well as increased suppression, which decreased the length of time spent in out-of-home court placements. Findings highlight the importance of ensuring continuity of mental health care for juvenile offenders before out-ofhome court placement, which require detainment. Ideally, mental health screening, referral, and treatment should be initiated when youth enter the juvenile court system in intake and probation settings, a time when youth remain with their
families
MY NEPHEW'S SANCTUARY: HURDLES TO GUARDIANSHIP OF COLLATERAL REFUGEE MINORS IN UTAH
No full textRefugee families are invited to enter Utah and are provided resources to become integrated members of the community. The guardianship system should mirror the ideals that the refugee resettlement system represents by providing a structure that allows relocated refugee families to maintain their family ties and receive necessary assistance. The guardianship system must be a more feasible journey for refugee families—families invited to enter this country together to escape oppression and war and experience the American Dream—and who hope to stay together. Improvements are needed, and Utah can look to other states and agencies for guidance in framing the guardianship petition system in such a way that protectsthe minor and all concerned adults
STATE V. MOHI - STATE SANCTIONED ABUSE?
No full textThe juvenile justice system is founded on rehabilitating children and shielding them from criminal penalties;' yet some states disregard that foundation and thrust their children into the criminal justice system before they have even been convicted of a crime.2 In State v. Mohi, the Utah Supreme Court held that once a juvenile has been charged with a crime and is subsequently transferred or ";bound over"; for trial in the criminal court, the child is required to be held in jail—as opposed to a juvenile detention facility—while awaiting tria1, regardless of the fact that the jail is entirely ill-equipped to meet the needs of children. To make matters worse, children in Utah can be held in jail prior to any determination of guilt for over a year while they wait for their bindover appeal to be heard or their trial to commence!' During that time, children are housed alongside adult criminals with little or no protections in place, they are provided with few or no educational opportunities, and they are not eligible for any youth-oriented rehabilitative services. This is true even in light of the fact that there are several secure juvenile detentions facilities available that are far more appropriate for meeting the needs ofpretrial juvenile detainees
CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
No full textThe scientific consensus is now clear. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released through the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity are accumulating in the atmosphere and causing average global temperature to rise.) We are already beginning to feel the effects. 2005 was the hottest year on record. Of the 21 hottest years ever measured since they started keeping records in 1860, 20 have occurred in last 25 years. The permafrost is melting in the arctic. Glaciers around the world are receding. By 2030, there will be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park. As the earth heats up, ecosystems across the globe are changing. Species that have evolved over millennia to adapt to particular climatic conditions are finding their habitats so drastically altered that their very survival is threatened. As the arctic sea ice melts, polar bears—a species that couldn't be farther from any center of human industrial activity—are facing extinction. And that's only the tip of the ice berg. Scientists estimate that human-induced climate change will drive a quarter of the species on earth to extinction by mid-century. There is literally no longer any spot on earth that remains untouched by human action. In the words of Bill McKibben, we are witnessing ";the end of Natur
AN INTERPERSONAL-DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
No full textThe juvenile justice system is charged with the complex tasks of (a) protecting the public from youth offenders; (b) supporting the development of these same youth; and (c) holding youth accountable for their delinquent behavior. For the past decade, these tasks have been referred to as the balanced and restorative approach to justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has produced a number of documents intended to guide policies and practices related to the administration of these tasks. While the goal
of balancing public safety, accountability, and treatment is philosophically admirable, the practical challenges have resulted in the development of juvenile justice systems that often seem fractured. 3 While some programs primarily attend
to the issue of accountability, others are more treatment-oriented, designed to support psychological development. Treatment-oriented programs have become increasingly specialized, focusing on a particular aspect of youth development such as anger management, self efficacy, substance abuse, or vocational training. Each of these treatment and rehabilitation components is important in its own
right, but the delivery of "balanced" services is difficult to coordinate
FARMER BEWARE: WATER RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN UTAH
No full textMuch of the water in the state of Utah has been appropriated by water users. In fact some water bodies are over-appropriated, meaning there are more water rights than water. This problem became even more evident in 2003 as the state felt the effects of a persistent drought. Faced with an abundance of water rights and declining aquifers, the State Engineer announced that cutbacks in allocationswould be necessary. During a 2003 speech to the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, the State Engineer complained about the lack of money available for water rights enforcement. He said he was aware of one farmer who has exceeded his water rights by more than 90 acre-feet annually but that prosecuting that case would cost more than $30,000
IMAGES OF THE "SOCIALLY DISINHERITED"
No full textWhile mainstream American media consistently portray urban youthof color from a stereotypical, deficit-based, and deleterious standpoint, these images run in startling contrast to portrayals in rap music. Rap music artists, instead, consistently document the neglect and abandonment of youth of color in America's devastated inner-citylandscapes. This paper is a brief pilot exploration of images of inner-city youth as portrayed in the lyrics of selected rap music artists which, it is found, run counter to mainstream media images of criminal youth predators so prevalent in American society. In addition, the paper will explore rap as a form of oppositional culture and as part of the legacy of Critical Race Theory in the post-Civil Rights Era