Associate Director @EAJProject @CUJusticelab; measuring and driving justice reform; youth caught up in criminal system
Joined May 2012
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You don’t become an adult overnight. The criminal justice system today fails to take the nuances & challenges of that transition into account - but it should. @CUJusticeLab & @EAJProject’s Summit kickstarts the conversation! #BridgingJustice
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Still not convinced "emerging adults" are a distinct developmental category? Watch pt.2 of our collab w @EchoesDoc as they take to the street to see just how much folks have grown since emerging adulthood, & then to the lab @SinaiBrain to hear the science: bit.ly/2F84FeK
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"It is time for...this nation,to treat its young people with compassion....Only then will we bring real justice to our young people." Read my op ed w/ @DARollins on lessons from Germany & how to keep young ppl out of the justice system. bostonglobe.com/opinion/edit… via @BostonGlobe
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Prosecutors @DARollins & @krinskymak urge #Massachusetts legislators to make this the year they raise the age at which youth are kept in the juvenile system to 21 @EAJProject @CUJusticeLab bostonglobe.com/opinion/edit…
Cook County State’s Attorney @SAKimFoxx supports reform to address the emerging adult population: “Cook County is the home of the first Juvenile Court. Somewhere along the line we lost our way." #ReimagineJustice. Read @CUJusticeLab’s new #Illinois report: bit.ly/2DvWyZ3
"We must remember that we were once leaders and innovators.” – @SAKimFoxx on emerging adult justice reform #ReimagineJustice #JJInitiative. Read @CUJusticeLab’s new #Illinois report: bit.ly/2DvWyZ3
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“Emerging adults, ages 18-25, is a distinct developmental stage with characteristics that are important to the crime and justice system.” - Lael Chester, Director of @CUJusticeLab
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The New England Patriots urge MA policy makers to right-size the juvenile justice system in new @BostonGlobe op-ed citing emerging adult research from Columbia Justice Lab @patriots @mccourtytwins @globeopinion bostonglobe.com/opinion/edit…
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.@Patriots Devin @McCourtyTwins, @j_bademosi24, @dharm32, Matthew Slater & team President Jonathan Kraft sat down w/ @Harvard_Law @FairPunishment to discuss criminalization of poverty & racial inequalities within Boston’s educational & juvenile justice system #LetsListenTogether xitter.cf/NFL/status/95904907959…
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How can criminal justice reform more effectively combat the drug epidemic among emerging adults in Massachusetts? Read the new report by Columbia University’s Justice Lab, Combating the Crisis, here: justicelab.iserp.columbia.ed…
