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Just Kids: When Misbehaving Is a Crime
Chapters
  1. Just Kids
  2. Understanding adolescence, acting out, and calls for help
  3. How status offenses lead kids into the justice system
  4. Why criminalization is not the answer
  5. Decriminalizing adolescent behavior
  6. A national movement
  7. Skipping School Can Get Kids Locked Up?
  8. Endnotes
  9. Acknowledgements
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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

August 2017
  • Mahsa Jafarian - Senior Program Associate
    Mahsa Jafarian
  • Vidhya Ananthakrishnan - Former Project Director
    Vidhya Ananthakrishnan

Acknowledgements:

The authors wish to thank Erika Turner, Michael Mehler, Anna Hall, David Hanbury, Paragini Amin, and Jennifer Cox for their tireless effort and creativity in helping produce this report and video. We would also like to thank Dinae Anderson for sharing her story and advocating for youth, as well as Girl Be Heard for making this partnership possible. Thanks to Mary Crowley, Ram Subramanian, Krista Larson, and Karina Schroeder for their review and comments. We are also deeply grateful to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for making this report possible and for supporting our status offense reform work over the past decade through their Models for Change and Resource Center Partnership initiatives.

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