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The Intersection Between Young Adult Sentencing And Mass Incarceration, Josh Gupta-Kagan
The Intersection Between Young Adult Sentencing And Mass Incarceration, Josh Gupta-Kagan
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This Article connects two growing categories of academic literature and policy reform: arguments for treating young adults in the criminal justice system more leniently than older adults because of evidence showing brain development and maturation continue until the mid-twenties; and arguments calling for reducing mass incarceration and identifying various mechanisms to do so. These categories overlap, but research has not previously built in depth connections between the two.
Connecting the two bodies of literature helps identify and strengthen arguments for reform. First, changing charging, detention, and sentencing practices for young adults is one important tool to reduce mass incarceration. Young …
Tips For Safety Planning For Children Of Undocumented Parents, Jennifer Baum
Tips For Safety Planning For Children Of Undocumented Parents, Jennifer Baum
Faculty Publications
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In 2013, more than 5 million children in the United States (over 7 percent of the total U.S. child population) were living with at least one undocumented parent, according to the Migration Policy Institute. The overwhelming majority of these children (80 percent) were U.S. citizens. The Washington Post reported that more than half a million of these children's parents have in fact been deported since 2009. That's a lot of U.S. children living day to day with the sudden loss, or risk of sudden loss, of a parent through deportation.