Journalists Resource, a project of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, reports on Vera's recent cost-benefit analysis of raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction in North Carolina.

The article, by Rozanne Larsen, points to Vera's research as a tool for journalists trying to understand this policy reform proposal, and says:

"At the request of the North Carolina General Assembly, the Vera Institute of Justice issued a report, “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Raising the Age of Juvenile Jurisdiction”(PDF). The state had allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to be prosecuted as adults and the analysis, conducted in July 2010, assessed the economic impact of raising the age to 18. It also looked at the costs of transferring teenagers who had committed only misdemeanor or nonviolent felony offenses, and who are currently in adult prisons, into the juvenile system."