Selen Siringil Perker

Associate Director @EAJProject @CUJusticelab; measuring and driving justice reform; youth caught up in criminal system

[Justice Policy Institute @JusticePolicy]

You don’t become an adult overnight. The criminal justice system today fails to take the nuances & challenges of that transition into account - but it should. @CUJusticeLab & @EAJProject’s Summit kickstarts the conversation! #BridgingJustice

[Emerging Adult Justice Project @EAJProject]

Still not convinced "emerging adults" are a distinct developmental category? Watch pt.2 of our collab w @EchoesDoc as they take to the street to see just how much folks have grown since emerging adulthood, & then to the lab @SinaiBrain to hear the science: https://t.co/LopgdUzXwg

[Miriam Krinsky @miriamkrinsky]

"It is time for...this nation,to treat its young people with compassion....Only then will we bring real justice to our young people." Read my op ed w/ @DARollins on lessons from Germany & how to keep young ppl out of the justice system. https://t.co/BZoEzFz7iH via @BostonGlobe

[Vincent Schiraldi @VinSchiraldi]

Prosecutors @DARollins & @krinskymak urge #Massachusetts legislators to make this the year they raise the age at which youth are kept in the juvenile system to 21 @EAJProject @CUJusticeLab https://t.co/9FZgIX96x6

[Selen Siringil Perker @SelenSP]

"We must remember that we were once leaders and innovators.” – @SAKimFoxx on emerging adult justice reform #ReimagineJustice #JJInitiative. Read @CUJusticeLab’s new #Illinois report: https://t.co/6xlEh7rTpM

[Selen Siringil Perker @SelenSP]

Cook County State’s Attorney @SAKimFoxx supports reform to address the emerging adult population: “Cook County is the home of the first Juvenile Court. Somewhere along the line we lost our way." #ReimagineJustice. Read @CUJusticeLab’s new #Illinois report: https://t.co/6xlEh7rTpM

[MA Criminal Justice Reform Caucus @CJReformMA]

“Emerging adults, ages 18-25, is a distinct developmental stage with characteristics that are important to the crime and justice system.” - Lael Chester, Director of @CUJusticeLab

[Columbia Justice Lab @CUJusticeLab]

The New England Patriots urge MA policy makers to right-size the juvenile justice system in new @BostonGlobe op-ed citing emerging adult research from Columbia Justice Lab @patriots @mccourtytwins @globeopinion https://t.co/40gbRBgxHO

[NFL @NFL]

.@Patriots Devin @McCourtyTwins, @j_bademosi24, @dharm32, Matthew Slater & team President Jonathan Kraft sat down w/ @Harvard_Law @FairPunishment to discuss criminalization of poverty & racial inequalities within Boston’s educational & juvenile justice system #LetsListenTogether https://t.co/e4jdRSd6rT

[Columbia Justice Lab @CUJusticeLab]

How can criminal justice reform more effectively combat the drug epidemic among emerging adults in Massachusetts? Read the new report by Columbia University’s Justice Lab, Combating the Crisis, here: https://t.co/PCsPv7UOLU