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Naomi Goldstein, PhD

Co-Director of JD/PhD program in Law and Psychology, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Expertise psychology juvenile justice

Goldstein is an applied researcher and Stoneleigh Fellow, whose work is designed to improve juvenile justice policy and practice to promote positive outcomes for youth. She collaborates with juvenile justice leaders locally, nationally and internationally to protect the rights of youth and foster their success. Her work has focused on adolescents’ capacities to make legal decisions, their abilities to fulfill behavioral requirements of the law, and the development of juvenile justice interventions and procedures to promote youths’ long-term well-being. Goldstein’s areas of specialization include: 1) youths’ capacities to successfully complete probation, 2) juvenile suspects’ capacities to waive Miranda rights and offer confessions to police, 3) international research on juveniles’ competence to stand trial in Argentina, 4) anger management and aggression reduction with girls in the juvenile justice system, 5) shrinking the school-to-prison pipeline through a new, district-wide, school-based police diversion program, and 6) evaluating police and program effectiveness within the juvenile justice system.

Contact

215.571.4299 naomi.goldstein@drexel.edu

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Mike Tuberosa

mt85@drexel.edu 215.895.2705

In The News

Philadelphia Reduces School-Based Arrests by 91% Since 2013 – Researchers Explain the Effects of Keeping Kids Out of the Legal System
Dec 4, 2023
Naomi Goldstein, PhD, a professor, and Amanda NeMoyer, JD, PhD, an assistant research professor, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, co-authored a Dec. 4 article in The Conversation about the success of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program, an initiative that reduces school-based arrests, keeping students in school and out of the legal system.
Federal Panel Reevaluating Its Poor Rating of the School District’s Arrest Diversion Program
Aug 4, 2022
Naomi Goldstein, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in an Aug. 4 KYW-Newsradio segment about the School District of Philadelphia's appeal of a low rating of its police diversion program by CrimeSolutions from the National Institute of Justice.
Credit Where Credit Is Due: How Juvenile Justice Fails Kids in Custody Academically
Oct 25, 2020
Research co-authored by Naomi Goldstein, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was mentioned in an Oct. 25 Desert News article about how youth in prison fall behind academically because of a variety of issues, like a lack of quality education to credits not being accepted.
Kids in Solitary in Philly Jails: 'It Was the Worst Time of My Life'
Aug 15, 2016
Naomi Goldstein, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the JD/PhD program in Law and Psychology, was quoted in an Aug. 15 Philadelphia Inquirer story about the prevalence of kids and solitary confinement in Philadelphia's juvenile jails.
Why Are Educators Learning How to Interrogate Their Students?
Mar 25, 2016
Naomi Goldstein, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and co-director of the JD/PhD program in Law and Psychology, was quoted in a March 25 New Yorkerstory about the rise of educators using interrogation techniques in schools.

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Keeping Kids Out of the System
Jan 25, 2024
In early November, Naomi Goldstein was sitting in a room in the grand National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington D.C., providing expert insight on how to evaluate programs designed to reduce crime among youth and adolescents. A psychology professor and director of the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab at Drexel University, Goldstein has spent decades improving outcomes for children who enter the juvenile justice system and finding innovative ways to keep them out of it.
Robert L. Listenbee, Stoneleigh Visiting Fellow Former Justice Department Official Joins Drexel’s Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab
Jun 20, 2017
After serving as Administrator of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Obama Administration, Robert L. Listenbee, Esq., will return to Philadelphia as a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow.
Deputy Police Commissioner Awarded Stoneleigh Fellowship, Coming to Drexel to Expand School-to-Prison Pipeline Diversion Program
Oct 28, 2015
Philadelphia Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel will spend the next three years expanding the successful pre-arrest diversion program in the School District of Philadelphia for students with no histories of juvenile justice involvement.

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