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Spotlight! Symposium: Betsy Fox Tolentino

Maryland’s Pathway to Reducing Juvenile Incarceration

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery + Online

Date & Time

November 16, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

This event is hosted by the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. The original event post is here.

Maryland’s Pathway to Reducing Juvenile Incarceration

Betsy Fox Tolentino, Managing Director, Young Adult Justice Initiatives, Roca Impact Institute

Over the past decade many strategies have been implemented resulting in more than an 80% reduction in juvenile incarceration. In this talk, participants will explore how alternatives to detention, agency policies and practices, the COVID19 pandemic, and Maryland’s newest juvenile justice reform laws impact how young people experience our state juvenile justice system. Moreover, the presentation will focus on applying a race equity lens to reform, advocacy and essential partnerships to increase system fairness and effectiveness.

Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies; the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; School of Social Work; Department of Psychology; Department of Political Science; Language, Literacy, and Culture Program; Department of Media and Communication Studies; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; and the Graduate School.

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