Vera Institute of Justice

Just Kids: When Misbehaving Is a Crime

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Introduction
Understanding adolescence, acting out, and calls for help
How status offenses lead kids into the justice system
Why criminalization is not the answer
Decriminalizing adolescent behavior
A national movement
Skipping School Can Get Kids Locked Up?
Endnotes
Acknowledgements

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Acknowledgements

August 2017

Mahsa Jafarian
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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Mahsa Jafarian

Vidhya Ananthakrishnan