Professor A. reflects on the unique approach and experiences of teaching the juvenile delinquency course. She shares insights on course design, student engagement, and the importance of dialogue and evidence in learning.

Professor Andrea Hagan explores transformative justice through restorative, abolitionist, and community-rooted practices that emphasize the significance of local geography and collective efficacy. This episode delves into successful community programs, abolitionist perspectives, and strategies for designing place-specific interventions to foster healing and reduce harm.

Professor Andrea Hagan explores the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the unique stance of the United States, and the real-world impact of local resistance on children's rights. This episode compares international commitments with local actions, focusing on cases like Louisiana and the UK to reveal the challenges in implementing global standards.

Professor Andrea Hagan explores the contrasting juvenile justice systems in Scandinavia and the United States, highlighting the effectiveness of the welfare model versus the punitive approach. This episode examines the cultural, political, and media influences shaping these systems and their global implications.

In this episode, Professor A unpacks how race, geography, and systemic biases shape students' paths through the school-to-prison pipeline. With a lens on urban, suburban, and rural differences, and drawing directly from the voices of Black students with disabilities, we'll examine patterns, lived experiences, and solutions such as restorative justice and cross-sector collaboration.

This episode explores the interconnection between juvenile delinquency and poverty across neighborhoods and geographic settings, examines empirical findings on social disorganization, highlights the stability and variation in collective efficacy, and discusses how cultural and structural geography influence family dynamics and youth outcomes.

This episode unpacks how adolescent brain development, psychological factors, and environmental geography combine to influence juvenile delinquency. Professor A blends research, real-life examples, and critical questions to reveal why understanding these intersections is essential for prevention and hope. Listeners will consider not just what youth do, but the layered reasons why.