![]() ![]() She is the Blume Professor of Law and director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1998 to 2001 she was the lead attorney of the Juvenile Unit at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Kristin Henning is a nationally recognized trainer and consultant on the intersection of race, adolescence, and policing. She limns the effects of police presence in schools and the depth of police-induced trauma in Black adolescents.Įspecially in the wake of the recent unprecedented, worldwide outrage at racial injustice and inequality, The Rage of Innocence is an essential book for our moment. ![]() She examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality, and of Black fashion, hair, and music. She makes clear that unlike White youth, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries, experiment with sex and drugs, and figure out who they are and who they want to be, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and are denied healthy adolescent development. ![]() ![]() Henning explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police, and she details the long-term consequences of racism that they experience at the hands of the police and their vigilante surrogates. ![]()
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