Wow, I’m already three days in to our internships! That’s cool! To day went great, this morning I went to court with Christian and he met an discussed a case with a Spanish speaker who didn’t speak English. That was really interesting to watch Christian communicate through an interpreter. We then walked through a case to a DUI offender and gave her some options whether she wanted to extend the court date, take a plea deal or, go to trial with it. That was cool because I got to see how Christian communicates with the Defendant. I also learned that when writing “defendant” in a case file you can shorthand it with a Δ. An example would be "the Δ would like an extension." We then figured out what I am going to focus on for my project is going to be. I will be comparing juveniles convicted of possession (possession is when you are caught with alcohol or a controlled substance) who have gone through Crossroads Rehabilitation Conference, to those who haven’t. I will be comparing the two groups to see if their has been any improvement in stopping recidivism (the repeating of criminal offences). If those who have attended the conference have a significant drop in recidivism then we will know that it helps those who go through it. This will greatly give Janine, who runs the conference, better knowledge if her work is really making and impact. I read over the brief feedback forms that Janine writes up on those who take the course and they are quite positive that those who go through the conference seem to really want to improve their lives. It will though be great to see some statistic evidence whether it works or not. To start that today I had to pull 25 case files on those who had gone through the conference out of the many racks of files. I would assume there are at least a million case files in that building OR MORE. I will then pull 25 more files from juveniles who haven’t gone to the conference. I think this project will be really cool and very beneficial to Janine and others.
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