Minimum Age Puerto Rico
Brief: Charting U.S. Minimum Ages of Jurisdiction, Detention, and Commitment (NJJN)
Utah HB262
Disrupting the Cradle to Prison Pipeline: The Massachusetts Experience
CfJJ Powerpoint – Raising The Lower Age of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction in Massachusetts
A full PowerPoint presentation illustrating Massachusetts campaign to raise the lower age of juvenile court jurisdiction. This can be used as a guide for states seeking to develop their own campaign to raise the lower age of juvenile court jurisdiction.
Read MoreCfJJ Raise the Lower Age Fact Sheet
Fact sheet used during CfJJ’s successful campaign to raise the lower age of juvenile court jurisdiction in Massachusetts
Read MoreThe Anti-Racist Imperative of Infancy
This article calls for the categorical exclusion of young children from juvenile court jurisdiction as a pathway toward the abolition of the juvenile legal system in its current form. This article highlights the landscape of age-based jurisdictional boundaries across the country: 24 states have no minimum age of arrest and prosecution, while 18 states have…
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