Research Submission Form

Name: Marian Perla

Per. 1st

Internship Location: Jimmy Ortiz Law Firm

Scope of Proposed Topic:

The reason why I choose this topic would be because of how mass incarceration has become
such a huge problem across America. While researching my question I found that most high
school students that become delinquents eventually end up in the group of mass incarcerated
individuals. If the high school students were to become educated over the consequences that
follow if they were to become a delinquent, then possibly the percentage of individuals in mass
incarceration could decrease.
General areas of study that area closely related to your topic (check all that apply):
Language arts
Science
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Business/accounting
Mathematics
Music
X Personal/social development
Other

Reasons for selecting this topic:

1. The younger generation needs to be informed about the problems associated with juvenile
delinquency.
2. If the younger generation becomes informed then the percentage of individuals that end up in
the mass incarceration population will not be as large in the future.
3. The younger generation is not informed about how much juvenile delinquency can affect their
future; so researching the topic and presenting it to a group of younger generation individuals
can help them stay away from committing crimes.
Use facilities (libraries, etc.), literature (periodicals, journals, etc.), and technology (computers,
Internet, software) for your primary (5) and secondary resources (10). You also need (4) personal
interviews with experts to conclude your research. These are the minimum requirements. If
using articles, they need to be at least two pages in length. You need to have at least 3 books.
Primary Resources (5): (MLA format, annotated) insert lines as needed
1. Krisberg, Barry. Juvenile Justice: Redeeming Our Children. California: Sage Publications, 2005.
Print. 18 Nov 2015.
Krisberg wrote this book over his personal experience in a gang. Throughout the book he
discusses events he went through during that period of his life. In the book Krisberg talks about
his life away from the gang and how it has improved. In this book Krisberg tries to get the
message across that these children going through problems should be helped by the community
instead of feared.
2. Sorrentino, Joseph N. Up from Never. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971. Print. 18 Nov
2015.
Sorrentino wrote his autobiography about his hardships and successes he went through in his
life. He went from being an Italian gang member to a Harvard graduate. In his book he speaks
about the times spent in and out of jail as a juvenile and young adult, but then how he decided to
change his life around.

3. Cavett, Dick. "My Life As a Juvenile Delinquent." Opinionator My Life As a Juvenile Delinquent
Comments. The New York Times, 11 Mar. 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2015
Cavett wrote in this article about his personal experience of juvenile delinquency in great detail.
He wrote about everything that happen that night when he got into trouble. The era which all of
this took place was during the fifties.
4. Shakur, Sanyika. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member. New York: Atlantic
Monthly, 1993. Print. 18 Nov 2015.
Sanyika wrote his memoir when he was sixteen years old. He wrote about his years as a Los
Angeles gangbanger who was initiated in a gang at the age of twelve. In his memoir he wrote
about how he later on after being in jail became a black nationalist.
5. Rodriguez, Luis J. Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone,
1993. Print. 18 Nov 2015.
This is Rodriguez memoir about his life as a young gang member. The book shows the readers an
insight on Rodriguezs life growing up in a gang environment, in and out of jail, and how he
changed his life around.

Secondary Resources (10): (MLA format, annotated) insert lines as needed

1. Beauchamp, Zack. "STUDY: Throwing Kids In Jail Makes Crime Worse, Ruins Lives."
ThinkProgress STUDY Throwing Kids In Jail Makes Crime Worse Ruins Lives. CENTER FOR
AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND, 17 June 2013. Web. 16 Nov 2015.
The article focuses on a study done in Chicago of public school students who had now grown up
and how mass incarceration of American youth is actually making the countrys crime problem
worse.
2. Wagner, Peter, and Leah Sakala. "Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie." Web log post. Mass
Incarceration: The Whole Pie. Prison Policy Initiative, 12 Mar. 2014. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.
This article is about how mass incarceration is confining over two million individuals behind bars
across our country. Wagner and Sakala did research over the topic and put together the articles
and graphs.
3. Tappan, Paul W. Juvenile Delinquency. 5th ed. Vol. 14. N.p.: American Sociological Review,
1949. JSTOR [JSTOR]. Print. 16 Nov. 2015.
Tappan's discussion of the problems of juvenile delinquency particularly attractive and
stimulating are found in this book. Various problems found with juvenile delinquency can be
found such as how many juvenile delinquents will become criminals in adulthood.
4. Kempf-Leonard, Kimberly, Paul E. Tracy, and James C. Howell. "Serious, Violent, and Chronic
Juvenile Offenders: The Relationship of Delinquency Career Types to Adult Criminality." Justice
Quarterly : JQ 18.3 (2001): 449-78. ProQuest. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.
Kempf-Leonard et al describe the intersections between serious, violent and chronic juvenile
offenders through 16 years in which the 1958 Philadelphia birth cohort was at risk for
delinquency and young adult crime. They demonstrate the importance, to developmental
criminology, of linking juvenile delinquency career types to adult criminality for policy
formulation and theory development.

5. Aizer, Anna, and Doyle,Joseph J.,,Jr. "Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital, and Future Crime:
Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 130.2 (2015):
759. ProQuest. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.
Over 130,000 juveniles are detained in the United States each year with 70,000 in detention on
any given day, yet little is known about whether such a penalty deters future crime or interrupts
social and human capital formation in a way that increases the likelihood of later criminal
behavior. This article uses the incarceration tendency of randomly assigned judges as an
instrumental variable to estimate causal effects of juvenile incarceration on high school
completion and adult recidivism.

6. Berkovich, Yekaterina. "ENSURING PROTECTION OF JUVENILES' RIGHTS: A BETTER WAY OF

OBTAINING A VOLUNTARY MIRANDA WAIVER." St.John's Law Review 88.2 (2014): 561-95.
ProQuest. Web. 16 Nov. 2015
This article introduces a new standard for determining whether juvenile confessions obtained
without parental notification, as required by the Juvenile Delinquency Act, should be admissible
into evidence. This article examines all of the possible standards used to evaluate voluntariness
of a juvenile's confession and proposes an amendment to the Juvenile Delinquency Act to
achieve a greater balance of protecting juveniles' rights while ensuring that the police maintain
proper tools for conducting an investigation.

7. Schubert, Carol A., et al. "Predicting Outcomes for Youth Transferred to Adult Court." Law and
human behavior 34.6 (2010): 460-75. ProQuest. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.
Extant research regarding juvenile transfer has focused primarily on the negative effects of
current policies, with little consistent and rigorous work on the variation among the adolescents
transferred to adult court and their later adjustment in the community.

8. Wickliffe, Joseph A. Why Juveniles Commit Crimes. New Haven: Yale-New Haven Teachers
Institute, 2015. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 2015.
Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
This article explains how we recognize criminal behavior in juveniles. It defines juveniles and
delinquency. It describes juveniles and delinquency as they relate to the history of criminal
behavior. The article explores the nature and the extent of juvenile delinquency, as well as how
family relationships are involved in the process, and offers a few theories in regard to the family
influence factor and its causes.
9. Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New
York: New, 2012. Print. 18 Nov 2015.
This book is about how in America the racial caste has not ended. Alexander points out how
because of racism still taking place in America many individuals of color are being affected by
being put into mass incarceration.
10. Bibas, Stephanos. "The Truth about Mass Incarceration." National Review Online. National
Review, 16 Sept. 2015. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
Stephanos gives readers an insights of what it is like of individuals that are incarcerated in the
United States.

Personal Interviews: (Attach your notes from each interview. Include verification of your
interview. Ie picture of you and interviewee, copies of emails, etc.)
1. Name: Jimmy Ortiz
Company: Jimmy Ortiz Law Firm
Expertise:
# of yrs
How this relates to your topic: He is a criminal defense attorney, because of this he knows
first hand the process that juveniles go through when committing a crime.

2. Name: Jamie Morrison

Company:
Expertise:
# of yrs
How this relates to your topic: She is familiar with the law and juvenile delinquency.

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Company:
Expertise:
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4. Name:
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Knowledge and/or skills I must improve in order to fully investigate my topic (for example, a new
computer language, how to use a particular library, develop a specialized vocabulary, learn
CAD):
1. I have all the knowledge and skill needed to fully investigate my topic.
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