Covering the Youth Justice Beat: 5 Tips for Telling the Story with Nuance, Balance and Dignity for Youth
As part of our media education series, “Covering the Youth Justice Beat,” this tipsheet offers five ways journalists can strengthen their coverage of youth in the legal system in order to create better context and avoid stereotyping and false narratives. Watch the accompanying panel discussion on YouTube.
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NJJN As advocates steeped in the work, much of our time is focused on pushing back against policies and practices that harm youth. As we fight to end over policing, abuse in facilities, and close harmful prisons, it is...
NJJN is committed to doing the hard work of anti-racism in our youth justice movement building, because our reform work is insufficient if we do not confront the racism inherent in the system. During our recent Virtual Forum held...
Courtney M. McSwain and Alyson Clements The Nation Juvenile Justice Network’s campaign to increase the age a child can be detained, committed, or prosecuted, – more broadly characterized as minimum age laws – continues to yield critical wins. In...
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