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https://www.ctipp.org/ from Jesse Kohler presentation Resilient TN Summit 2023

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“Moreover, we cannot assert the innocence of anyone, whereas we can state with certainty the guilt of all. Every man testifies to the crime of all the others—that is my faith and my hope.”

-Camus, The Fall

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Protect and Redirect: America’s Growing Movement to Divert Youth Out of the Justice System – The Sentencing Project

Jurisdictions around the country have taken steps to expand diversion as an alternative to arrest or prosecution in juvenile court.

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Spending on CASA for Foster Kids Surges; Evaluation Lags

A review of CASA research finds that rigorous evaluation of the volunteer court advocates is limited, despite heavy taxpayer support.

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Civic engagement is a ThinkTennessee priority. Our research explores aspects of elections and civic life, including election security, civic

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Opinion | My Sister Was Murdered 30 Years Ago. True Crime Repackages Our Pain as Entertainment.

I grew up watching the brief beauty of my sister’s life weaponized to usher in an era of mass incarceration and true crime obsession.

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Although her killer was caught and convicted, I grew up watching the brief beauty of my sister’s life eclipsed by a political narrative that weaponized her innocence to propel an era of mass incarceration and true crime obsession.

Those early experiences showed me how sensationalist stories in the media about high-profile crimes not only erode the dignity of victims but also can inflate public perception of national crime rates, which have been in decline for decades. Misguided policies like three-strikes laws aren’t merely unfortunate side effects of inflammatory discourse; they are the direct result of moral outrage curated by hyperbolic headlines and the pervasiveness of true crime’s grisly method of storytelling."

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Gun violence among juveniles is rising. How do you keep them out of the system?

We heard from young men who are locked up in Maryland for serious crimes like robbery and assault. Now we hear from a key official with a lo

Vincent Schiraldi

SCHIRALDI: We had a simultaneous, very substantial reduction in the number of kids who are locked up, 70% from 2000 to 2020. And we had about an 80-plus percent decline in arrests of juveniles during that period of time. So it was kind of a virtuous cycle - fewer kids getting arrested, fewer kids getting locked up and learning. Then we had this pandemic. Kids were disrupted from schools. Parents were losing their jobs. Mental health issues were sort of increasing for both the young people and their families and their neighborhoods. People started to arm themselves in those neighborhoods, mostly adults but sometimes kids. And when you have a lot of people with a lot of frustration, with a lot of guns in their pockets, you stop having fistfights, and you start having shootouts.