Carla Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mencap |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4998-5239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social value in the Further Education and Skills sector in England
Purpose This paper explores how Further Education (FE) and Skills professionals understand social value, based on a sector-wide call for evidence. It examines evidence of the sector’s contribution to social value at individual, community and societal levels. While relatively little has been written about social value in FE and Skills, articulating the value generated by the sector can strengthen its collective identity, provide meaningful insight…
A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Mencap Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Approach in Newham
CHAPTER ONE. Calendar Days in the Youth Part
This chapter describes a typical calendar day in the Manhattan Youth Part courtroom and shows how delay, routinization, and drama characterize the court. Calendar days—usually Fridays—were set aside in the Manhattan Youth Part for the routine processing of ongoing cases. These days were full of legal case-processing activity, such as ordering reports from the probation department, making arrangements for a youth to have an intake appointment with…
Courting Kids
"Courting Kids" published on by NYU Press.
CHAPTER THREE. Rehabilitation, Youth Part Style
This chapter reveals some of the many challenges that arose in the day-to-day case processing of young defendants and details the strategies employed by the court in response to them. Using courtroom narratives of individual defendants, the chapter illustrates how the Manhattan Youth Part adopted a rehabilitative model of youth justice by employing a statute from the 1940s called the Youthful Offender Law. The statute allows some kids to avoid li…
CHAPTER TWO. Creating the “Juvenile Offender”
This chapter analyzes how the formal label of “Juvenile Offender” came into existence in New York law in 1978. As the first law of its kind in the nation, the passage of New York's Juvenile Offender Law set an early precedent for the routine prosecution of youths as adults. The year 1978 was an election year in New York State, and the issue of juvenile crime and violence became a hotly contested campaign issue, fueled in large part by two murders…
CHAPTER Five. Managing Contradictions
This chapter highlights how the Manhattan Youth Part managed the most basic tension at work in the practice of trying youths as adults—that, regardless of their statutorily designated “adult” status, defendants were adolescent social actors—and considers the role their families played. It also reveals the contradictions with the New York criminal justice system's own legal labeling practices by exploring the courtroom narratives of six kids. Alon…
Petty Crimes and Harassment
Queering the Home
In the West, the private sphere of the home is traditionally associated with the heterosexual nuclear family. Through social, cultural, and legal processes, the heterosexual bond has been constructed as central to the family home. Despite these dominant discourses, the home is also a space in which heteronormativity (or the unacknowledged assumption that heterosexuality is the natural and normal form of sexuality) may be subverted. This article c…
Courting Kids
Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Part, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults …
The Ties That Bind
Queering the Home
In the West, the private sphere of the home is traditionally associated with the heterosexual nuclear family. Through social, cultural, and legal processes, the heterosexual bond has been constructed as central to the family home. Despite these dominant discourses, the home is also a space in which heteronormativity (or the unacknowledged assumption that heterosexuality is the natural and normal form of sexuality) may be subverted. This article c…
Petty Crimes and Harassment
A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Mencap Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Approach in Newham
The Ties That Bind
Courting Kids
Despite being labeled as adults, the approximately 200,000 youth under the age of 18 who are now prosecuted as adults each year in criminal court are still adolescents, and the contradiction of their legal labeling creates numerous problems and challenges. In Courting Kids Carla Barrett takes us behind the scenes of a unique judicial experiment called the Manhattan Youth Part, a specialized criminal court set aside for youth prosecuted as adults …
Queering the Home
In the West, the private sphere of the home is traditionally associated with the heterosexual nuclear family. Through social, cultural, and legal processes, the heterosexual bond has been constructed as central to the family home. Despite these dominant discourses, the home is also a space in which heteronormativity (or the unacknowledged assumption that heterosexuality is the natural and normal form of sexuality) may be subverted. This article c…
Petty Crimes and Harassment
CHAPTER ONE. Calendar Days in the Youth Part
This chapter describes a typical calendar day in the Manhattan Youth Part courtroom and shows how delay, routinization, and drama characterize the court. Calendar days—usually Fridays—were set aside in the Manhattan Youth Part for the routine processing of ongoing cases. These days were full of legal case-processing activity, such as ordering reports from the probation department, making arrangements for a youth to have an intake appointment with…
Courting Kids
"Courting Kids" published on by NYU Press.
CHAPTER THREE. Rehabilitation, Youth Part Style
This chapter reveals some of the many challenges that arose in the day-to-day case processing of young defendants and details the strategies employed by the court in response to them. Using courtroom narratives of individual defendants, the chapter illustrates how the Manhattan Youth Part adopted a rehabilitative model of youth justice by employing a statute from the 1940s called the Youthful Offender Law. The statute allows some kids to avoid li…
CHAPTER TWO. Creating the “Juvenile Offender”
This chapter analyzes how the formal label of “Juvenile Offender” came into existence in New York law in 1978. As the first law of its kind in the nation, the passage of New York's Juvenile Offender Law set an early precedent for the routine prosecution of youths as adults. The year 1978 was an election year in New York State, and the issue of juvenile crime and violence became a hotly contested campaign issue, fueled in large part by two murders…
CHAPTER Five. Managing Contradictions
This chapter highlights how the Manhattan Youth Part managed the most basic tension at work in the practice of trying youths as adults—that, regardless of their statutorily designated “adult” status, defendants were adolescent social actors—and considers the role their families played. It also reveals the contradictions with the New York criminal justice system's own legal labeling practices by exploring the courtroom narratives of six kids. Alon…
A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Mencap Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Approach in Newham
Social value in the Further Education and Skills sector in England
Purpose This paper explores how Further Education (FE) and Skills professionals understand social value, based on a sector-wide call for evidence. It examines evidence of the sector’s contribution to social value at individual, community and societal levels. While relatively little has been written about social value in FE and Skills, articulating the value generated by the sector can strengthen its collective identity, provide meaningful insight…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Juvenile (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works)