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| Experts Call for Juvenile Justice System Overhaul |
| By jjie.org - Jessica R. Kendall |
| Published: 06/12/2013 |
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WASHINGTON, D.C.– For 40 years Robert Johnson, chair of the Committee on Assessing Juvenile Justice Reform at the National Research Council of the National Academies has worked with adolescents in the juvenile justice system. The hope, Johnson said, “was that they would learn something from [that experience] and return to society as productive individuals.” But that has not been the case, according to Johnson. The juvenile justice system has failed to consider young people’s development and many kids have been permanently scarred, said Johnson, who is also a professor of pediatrics at the New Jersey Medical School. Although we have learned a lot in recent years about adolescent brain development, he said, this knowledge still hasn’t moved into juvenile justice policy and practice. Read More. |
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