General); and the audience members who included juvenile justice practitioners and administrators from across the nation.The Boyd School of Law and Berkeley Law provided essential and exemplary support for both the conference and this volume. UNLV Executive Vice President and Provost John Valery White nurtured the initial spark and Elaina Bhattacharyya, the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Boyd School of Law, tended the flame. Elaina even found the contrasting images that now appear on the cover. As usual, Toni Mendicino of the Institute for Legal Research at Berkeley Law provided expert assistance in preparing this volume for publication. The viii << Acknowledgments Criminal Justice Research Program at Berkeley Law has supported the book series and its volumes since 2010.Finally, we thank our dedicated editors at NYU Press, Ilene Kalish and Caelyn Cobb, for their stewardship of this project. This included securing timely and constructive evaluations of the entire manuscript by Barry Feld and other anonymous peer reviewers.
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