U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
Civil Rights
Oct. 27, 2017
Righting the ship on juvenile justice
This month, in one fell swoop, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law an array of bills putting California on the forefront of juvenile justice reform. With these laws, California affirmed recent neurological and social science advances about adolescence and delinquency.
Meredith Desautels
Rosenberg Leading Edge Fellow
Bay Area Legal Aid
Email: mdesautels@baylegal.org
Meredith is a youth justice attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid.
Ji Seon Song
Lecturer in Law
Stanford Law School
Ji is a Thomas C. Grey fellow at Stanford Law School.
This month, in one fell swoop, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law an array of bills putting California on the forefront of juvenile justice reform. With these laws, California affirmed recent neurological and social science advances about adolescence and delinquency. The new laws embody two conclusions: that kids are different; and that in order to support healthy development, juvenile courts should minimize the harms of their interventions. As the research shows, not o...
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