Learned Helplessness, Criminalization, and Victimization in Vulnerable Youth

Date:  12-17-2020 Paper offers community-based solutions to help vulnerable youth overcome challenges that may have lifetime consequences

From Square One Justice: This new paper from Executive Session member Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Evangeline Lopoo, and Anamika Dwivedi explores how the United States came to view civil and criminal detainment as the “solution” for maladaptive behavior in young people and suggest that a more holistic understanding of human development can help better serve youth. Read the report here.