The accompanying materials, published by the National Juvenile Defender Center, were made available to accompany the Open Society forum “Protecting America’s Children—Assessing the Promise of In Re Gault 40 Years Later,” held at Open Society Foundations–New York on May 3, 2007.
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- National Juvenile Defender Center: About Us (113.52 Kb pdf file)
- Key Facts Regarding Juvenile Indigent Defense (63.71 Kb pdf file)
- General Juvenile Justice Facts & Figures (50.58 Kb pdf file)
- Gault Forty Years Later: Importance and Impact (45.62 Kb pdf file)
- Ten Core Principles for Providing Quality Delinquency Representation (130.78 Kb pdf file)
- Florida: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (41.9 Kb pdf file)
- Indiana: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (41.82 Kb pdf file)
- Maine: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (42.84 Kb pdf file)
- Maryland: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (42.79 Kb pdf file)
- Montana: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (42.59 Kb pdf file)
- North Carolina: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (43.08 Kb pdf file)
- Pennsylvania: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (42.98 Kb pdf file)
- Washington: An Assessment of the Right to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Juvenile Offender Matters (42.07 Kb pdf file)
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