CJCJ in the News Jul 23, 2018
Intersectionality, Complexity of California Juvenile Justice Dramatized in ‘The 57 Bus’
CJCJ’s Director of Policy and Development Brian Goldstein authors an Op-Ed on the complexities of youth in our juvenile justice system through the lens of “The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives” by Dashka Slater.
NJ.com quotes CJCJ’s Senior Research Fellow Mike Males in an article on youth curfews: their ineffectiveness as a model of crime prevention and damaging impacts for young people.
NJ.com quotes CJCJ Senior Research Fellow Mike Males on the dangers of youth curfew policies, which criminalize youth without improving community safety.
CJCJ in the News May 30, 2018
California’s ‘Close to Home’ Programs Must Invest in Communities, Not Corrections
CJCJ Communications and Policy Analyst Renee Menart authors an Op-Ed in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (JJIE) about two California grant programs that provide nearly $280M for local services, and how these funds can be better spent through community-based programming.
CJCJ Senior Research Fellow Mike Males pens an Op-Ed on decreased gun violence among youth in major cities across the U.S. amid the nation’s continued atrocities of gun violence and mass shootings.