October 6, 2012
The following list of resources was compiled as a class project for Professor Judith Kay’s course on
Crime and Punishment by University of Puget Sound students Benjamin Anderstone, Kyle Kubler,
Marisa Lopez, Maggie Manire, Sarah Rudy, Claire Simon, Hannah Whisler, and Treva Vollmer.
The list is not meant to be exhaustive. If you wish to add additional resources to the existing list, please mail information to raceandpedagogy@pugetsound.edu. We will post an evolving list on the
Race & Pedagogy website.
 A Common Voice This program provides support, resources, and networking for parents and families with children with emotional, behavioral and/or mental health needs. http://www.acommonvoice.org/, 253.537.2145.
 ACLU (Washington) A website providing relevant voting information about racial justice, detention, and prisoner’s rights. For more information about how to get involved, visit http://www.aclu-wa.org/get-involved.
 Arts Connect Partnered with Pierce County Juvenile Court, Arts Connect uses an integrated approach that includes hands-on arts learning, reflective writing assignments, consistent adult mentors and a service-learning component that teaches volunteerism and philanthropy. For more information contact Diana Falchuk at diana@dianafalchuk.com.
 Big Brothers Big Sisters This program sets up children with adult mentors that help build the academic, cultural and social lives of the children (age 7-18) to achieve success. https://www.bbbsps.org/, 877.700.2447.
 CASA Program A national volunteer organization dedicated to providing support and safety to abused and neglected children in the courtroom. Volunteer opportunities included being court appointed by judges to guide and support a neglected child through the courtroom process. For more information, please contact Julie Lowery
(jlowery@co.pierce.wa.us).
 Diversion Program Volunteer two evenings a month to support youth through rehabilitation rather than conviction. For more information, contact the Pierce County Juvenile Court at
253
798-3837 and see http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/abtus/ourorg/juvct/volunteer.htm.
 FEPPS An organization dedicated to providing students of their organization with college courses equivalent to those taught at accredited universities in Washington and educational experience bases on the tenets of a liberal education. For volunteer information about opportunities please email earn@fepps.org
.

 Girl Scouts Beyond Bars This program specifically aims to help foster the development of girls with incarcerated parents by providing family bonding activities in adult secure detention. For more information about volunteer activities, visit http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/our_partners/initiatives/gsbb.asp.
 Girl Scouting in Detention Centers This organization is the only gender specific program that serves girls in detention centers or court mandated delinquents. Volunteer opportunities include mentorship. More information can be found by visiting http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/our_partners/initiatives/gsdc.asp.
 New Connections A non-profit agency that aims to help people successfully reenter the community after prison. Various types of volunteer opportunities available, for more information visit http://nctacoma.org/ .
 Northwest Detention Center Roundtable (NWDC) A nonprofit charitable organization devoted to provide practical help to detainees and their families. For more information about involvement, please email nwdcr.info@gmail.com.
 Northwest Leadership Foundation This foundation includes many programs aimed towards providing leadership skills and encouraging both youths and adults to get involved in the community as well as increasing self-confidence in setting positive goals and taking action for their lives. http://www.northwestleadership.org/, 253.272.0771.
 NWIRP (Northwest Immigrants Right Project) An organization devoted to promoting justice for low-income immigrants by pursuing and defending their legal status.
Opportunities for getting involved include everything from volunteer translators to legal professional volunteers. Please see website for more information http://nwleadershipseminar.com/default.asp?deptid=1&pageid=367 .
 Oasis Youth Center An organization, designed as a support center, devoted to the need of GLBTQ youth ages 14-24 in Pierce County. It is also a program of the Pierce County
AIDS Foundation. For more information about volunteer opportunities, such as becoming involved in mentorship please contact Seth Kirby (skirby@piercecountyaids.org.)
 Post- Prison Education Program This program provides access and support to higher education for those people who are re-entering the community after prison. http://postprisonedu.org/.
 REACH A center dedicated to providing young adults, ages 16-24, in the Tacoma/Pierce
County area with career, education, and personal development services. For more information pertaining to the organization or volunteer opportunities please contact Zach
Lam (zlam@tacomareach.org).
 Tacoma 360 An association concerned with improving student success by aligning and strengthening school and community resources. For information pertaining to volunteer opportunities, please contact Julia Garnett (jgarnett@tacoma360.org).
 Tacoma Community House A non-profit organization that provides service to refugees, immigrants, and English speaking adults and youths. TCH provides free services ranging from adult education to bilingual job assistance. For volunteer opportunities, please contact
Karen Thomas (kthomas@tacomacommunityhouse.org).
 Team Child A nonprofit civil aid organization, providing free legal representation and advice to youth, as well as legal education resources and training to community partners.
For volunteer opportunities please contact Sara Zier (253)-274-9929 or visit http://teamchild.org/index.php/getinvolved/36/volunteer/.
 Voter Registration in Washington Washingtonians convicted of a felony may vote after completion of their sentence and all parole and probation. For more information, see registerinwashington.org.

 White Feather Re-Entry This program provides housing, practical everyday items, support and services for people re-entering the community after prison. www.fresh-starthousing.org or www.whitefeatherreentry.org, 253.380.5618
 YWCA Pierce County This program focuses on providing shelter, services, support and safety from domestic violence, especially aimed towards women and children. http://www.ywcapiercecounty.org/, 253.365.6352. Resource Center: 253.272.4181 and info@wcapiercecounty.org. Hotline: 253.383.2593 and crisis@ywcapiercecounty.org.
 Alexander, Michelle. (2010). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness . NY: New Press.
 Behtold, Jordan, Cauffman, Elizabeth, & Monahan, Kathryn. (2011). Knowledge Brief: Are
Minority Youths Treated Differently in Juvenile Probation? MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change Research Initiative: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice. http://www.modelsforchange.net/publications/314.
 Center for Juvenile Justice Reform. (2009). Racial and Ethnic Disparity and
Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: A Compendium . Washington, DC:
Georgetown University.
 Dieter, R. C. (2011). Struck by Lightning: The Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty
Thirty-Five Years After Its Re-instatement in 1976.
Washington, D.C.: The Death Penalty
Information Center. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/StruckByLightning.pdf.
 Gaynes, Elizabeth; Lalley, Jacqueline; Lubow, Bart; & McDaniel, Mark.
(2005). Reentry:
Helping Former Prisoners Return to Communities, 2-59. Baltimore, MD: Technical
Assistance Resource Center of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. www.aecf.org/upload/publicationfiles/ir2980d32.pdf.
 Gopnik, Adam. (2012). The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many people? The
New Yorker . http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130cr at_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all.
 Hunt, J. & Moodie-Mills, A. (2012). The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender
Youth: An Overview of the Experiences of LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System.
Washington, DC: Center for American Progress.
 Martin, Teri K. (2009). Chronic Minor Offender Work Group Report and Recommendations to Criminal Justice Task Force. Progress Report (1-17). www.co.pierce.wa.us
(CMO_June_2009.pdf).
 National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Center for Children’s Law and Policy. (2006).
Guidelines for Collecting and Recording the Race and Ethnicity of Juveniles in Conjunction with Juvenile Delinquency Disposition Reporting to the Juvenile Court Judges’
Commission. http://www.cclp.org/simple.php/racial_ethnic_disparities.
 Pettit, Becky & Western, Bruce. (2004). Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and
Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration. American Sociological Review , 69, 151 –169. http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/western/pdfs/ASRv69n2p.pdf.
 Poehlmann, J., Dallaire , D., Loper, A.B., & Shear, L. D. (2010). Children’s contact with their incarcerated parents. American Psychologist, 65 , 575-598.

 Reiman, Jeffrey & Leighton, Paul. (2010). The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison :
Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice . Ninth Edition. New York: Pearson.
 Research Working Group, Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System. (2012).
Preliminary Report on Race and Washington’s Criminal Justice System.
Seattle: University of Washington School of Law. http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspacelaw/handle/1773.1/1101.
 Simon, Jonathan. (2007). Governing Through Crime . New York: Oxford University Press.
 Soler, M. & Garry, L. M. (2009). Reducing Disproportionate Minority Contact: Preparation at the Local Level. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
http://www.njjn.org/uploads/digital-library/resource_1339.pdf.
 Solomon, Amy L., Osborne, Jenny W.L., LoBuglio, Stefan F., Mellow, Jeff , & Mukamal,
Debbi A. (2008). Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community. Urban
Institute: Justice Policy Center. http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411660_life_after_lockup.pdf.
 Washington State Department of Corrections, Planning and Research Unit. (2009). Racial
Disparity —Loss of Liberty.
http://www.doc.wa.gov/aboutdoc/measuresstatistics/researchinternalstudies.asp.
 Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. (2010). Disproportionate
Minority Contact/Confinement .
dshs.wa.gov/jra/dmc.shtml.
 Annie E. Casey Foundation Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/JuvenileDetentionAlternativesInitiative.aspx
 Death Penalty Information Center http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/home
 International Institute for Restorative Practices http://www.iirp.edu/.
 National Archives of Criminal Justice Data http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACJD/
 The Sentencing Project: Research and Advocacy for Reform www.sentencingproject.org
 The W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity www.burnsinstitute.org
 Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
http://www.abolishdeathpenalty.org/