A crit­i­cal ques­tion for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s emerg­ing adult jus­tice pilot has been: What if pro­ba­tion offi­cers and defense attor­neys adopt prac­tices and poli­cies that seek to sup­port emerg­ing adults’ healthy development? 

Three juris­dic­tions test­ing a devel­op­men­tal approach for young adults involved in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem are find­ing that expand­ing buy-in among judges, attor­neys and oth­er stake­hold­ers is essen­tial to imple­men­ta­tion success.

A report from The New York Times. Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy.

A post from the blog of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

A report by the Marshall Project. Inspired by Germany, South Carolina let prisoners design their own units, write house rules and settle their own disputes. Then came politics.

Loyola’s Center for Criminal Justice (CCJ) was invited to present at the Summer 2024 quarterly meeting of the Illinois Juvenile Justice Leadership Council, on the topic of “emerging adults”—those between 18 and 24—in the Illinois criminal justice system. This research brief summarizes that presentation, which was based on new analyses of Illinois arrest and prison admission data pertaining to emerging and older adults.

Interview with Duci Goncalves and Lael Chester from the podcast Public Defenseless with Hunter Parnell (2024)