First hour: An alternative approach to juvenile justice
Second hour: Physicist and author Brian Greene
Fifteen years ago this week, Ontario County Youth Court tried a new approach to juvenile justice. The rules said that young offenders would be treated differently, if they
1) volunteered to appear in front of a court of their peers, and
2) took responsibility for their actions.
That was just the start. Fifteen years in, the program claims a 91% success record. As in, 91% of those who go through the Youth Court never appear before a judge in any court again. We'll discuss alternative approaches to juvenile justice with our panel:
Deb Holland, program director, the Ontario County Youth Court
Bonnie Ross, executive director for the Partnership for Ontario County
Megan Prusinowski, Youth Court alum; currently a student at SUNY Geneseo
Joey Loffredo, student volunteer
Kaley Grooms, student volunteer
In our second hour: Who is the single best science communicator in the world today? On the short list of candidates is Brian Greene, whom the Washington Post calls the "single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today." Greene is a physicist, an author, co-founder of the World Science Festival, and the host of The Fabric of the Cosmos on PBS. He's coming to Rochester later this month, but first, Greene will join us for the hour on Connections. He'll be a guest of NEXUS-NY Clean Energy Demo Day, and he'll be talking about the scientific possibilities for innovation.
Greene will be joined on Connections by Doug Buerkle, Executive Director of NEXUS-NY