Professor Winick will be a speaker on two panels at a symposium titled Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Forensic Cases hosted by the University of Miami Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. The first panel, at 1:30 pm is entitled Juvenile Shackling: The Legal and Psychological Perspectives. The other...
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October 1, 2006: Florida Bar News, pg 1 sect 2After administrative efforts failed to end the shackling in Miami-Dade, 11th Circuit Public Defender Bennett Brummer’s office filed motions in individual cases September 11 to unchain the children, arguing shackling them makes a mockery of the presumption of innocence doctrine, violates children’s right to due...
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September 12, 2006, Local and State, pg B1 “These are young, impressionable kids who are going through what we used to call an identity crisis: `Who am I? What is my place in the world?’ ” said Bruce Winick, an expert in law and psychology at the University of Miami. “And we’re telling them:...
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