Learning Community

Learning Community (2017-2020)

The Emerging Adult Justice Learning Community (EAJLC) was a carefully organized collaborative learning environment that brought together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates twice a year over a three-year period to create more developmentally appropriate, effective and fairer criminal justice responses for youths ages 18 – 25. Participants of the Learning Community are all engaged in some aspect of this work in their professional pursuits. The Learning Community’s goals were to provide researchers and policymakers access to one another to increase learning, practice, and policy innovations by translating academic research into effective policies and developing opportunities to research burgeoning practices that contribute to a more equitable treatment of emerging adults.

LEARNING COMMUNITY PUBLICATIONS

A series of three Key Element Briefs examining specific practices and offering guidance on key elements important to consider in both the design and implementation of innovative emerging adult justice practices

Members of the Community

Researchers, Academics & Research support

Bianca E. Bersani (Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts)

Jamie Fader (Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice of Temple University)

Thomas (Tom) Grisso (Clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School)

Nikki Jones (Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley)

John H. Laub (Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park)

Wayne Osgood (Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Sociology at Penn State)

Carla Shedd (Associate Professor of Urban Education at The Graduate Center at City University of New York)

Vivian Tseng (William T. Grant Foundation’s grantmaking programs)

Christopher (Chris) Uggen (Regents Professor, Martindale Chair, and Distinguished McKnight Professor in Sociology, Law, and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota)

Bruce Western (Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and Director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University)

Practitioners, PolicyMakers & Advocates

Karen Friedman Agnifilo (Chief Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney’s Office)

Quincy L. Booth (Director for the D.C. Department of Corrections (DCDOC))

Elizabeth Calvin (Senior Advocate at Human Rights Watch)

Hon. Paula M. Carey (Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court)

Elizabeth “Betsy” Clarke, J.D. (Founder and President of the Juvenile Justice Initiative (JJI))

Joshua (Josh) Dohan (Director of the Youth Advocacy Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services of Massachusetts).

Kevin Donahue (Deputy City Administrator and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice in District of Columbia)

Laura Fine (State Senator of the 9th District in Illinois)

Francis (“Frankie”) V. Guzman (Director of California Juvenile Justice Initiative and a staff attorney at National Center for Youth Law (NCYL))

Dana Kaplan (Deputy Director of Justice Initiatives and Close Rikers at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ))

Michael (Mike) Lawlor (Tenured Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences at the University of New Haven)

Hon. Edwina G. Mendelson (New York Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for the Office of Justice Initiatives (OJI))

Katherine (Katy) Weinstein Miller (Chief of Programs and Initiatives in the Office of San Francisco District Attorney (George Gascón))

Marc Schindler (Executive Director of the Justice Policy Institute)

Steven (Steve) Tompkins (Elected Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts)

Columbia Emerging Adult Justice Project Team

Lael Elizabeth Hiam Chester

Selen Siringil Perker

Vincent (Vinny) Schiraldi

Maya Sussman