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.
With over 6 million people barred from voting on Election Day through felony disenfranchisement policies, their communities are left without the voting power to access resources and address their needs. Opportunities for civic engagement, including voting, among justice-involved individuals can bring us closer to solutions.
In the FY 2018 – 19 budget, California makes prudent new investments in community-based youth but fails to modernize the state’s juvenile justice data bank and needlessly expands the troubled state youth correctional system.