In today’s world, academics, practitioners and even lay people throw around terms or buzzwords such as “best practices” or “evidence-based practices” or “transformation efforts” when discussing juvenile justice practices and needs. These phrases are embedded in every conversation, training session and publication specific to juvenile justice. Yet too often these terms remain vague and disconnected from our daily work with juveniles.
One of these buzzwords is the term “trauma.” I openly admit that our court service unit until recent years only addressed trauma issues as it related to female offenders and only after the girls penetrated into the deep end of the system.
[For more of this story, written by Robert A. Bermingham Jr., go to http://jjie.org/2017/05/24/don...umatized-by-trauma/#]
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