Auteur: Francine Jacobs

FRANCINE T. SHERMAN, JD, is a Clinical Professor and the founder and Director of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School. She is an ongoing consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation »s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) on strategies to reduce the detention of girls nationally, and speaks and writes widely on issues related to juvenile justice. She currently serves on the U.S. Department of Justice National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women focusing on children and teens victimized by domestic violence and sexual assault. FRANCINE H. JACOBS, Ed D, is an Associate Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. Developer of the widely used Jacobs »s Five-Tiered Approach to Evaluation, she has also coedited or written several books and other publications, including the four-volume Handbook of Applied Developmental Science.