NCJ Number
144425
Date Published
1993
Length
19 pages
Annotation
This report highlights the 1992 activities of the National Institute on Citizen Education in the Law (NICEL), an organization devoted to empowering citizens through law- related education.
Abstract
NICEL has developed programs and materials to give young people the skills they need to make a difference in their communities; one such program is Teens, Crime, and the Community, a model service learning program in which participants learn how crime affects them and develop community service projects to reduce crime in their neighborhoods. NICEL sponsors several programs to bring law- related education to at-risk adolescents. In 1972, NICEL launched its first Street Law program to send law students into high schools, juvenile and adult correctional institutions, and community settings to teach practical law; 38 law schools now offer this program. Other activities sponsored by NICEL include conflict management training, mock trials, law-related education for disabled students, and international programs.