The School of Social Work's Office of Research & Scholarship (ORS) will host guest speaker Dr. Laura Abrams on Monday, October 14, 2024, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. as she presents In Pursuit of Youth Justice: Social Work Research, Advocacy and Public Policy.
A Professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Dr. Abrams’s scholarship focuses on improving the well-being of youth and adults with histories of incarceration. Her ethnographic studies have examined youths’ experience of criminality, risk, and institutions seeking to reshape their identities. Dr. Abrams is currently involved in several studies concerning the youth and adult criminal legal systems and reentry, locally and globally. Her study of youth justice models in four countries examined how issues of age, maturity, and culpability are constructed in law and practice. In the community, Dr. Abrams has served as an expert witness for death row appeals and in cases involving minors fighting their fitness to be tried as adults. She has provided public and congressional testimony regarding treatment in the juvenile justice system, the reentry needs of youth, and effective practices for the reintegration of reentry youth into the community.
We encourage you to join us in person for Dr. Abrams’s presentation in HSSW 113. For those participating virtually, please join via Webex.
Contact ssw-ors@uconn.edu with questions or to request an invite.
For more information, contact: ORS at ssw-ors@uconn.edu