Sentencing Children: Bridging Neuroscience, Justice, and Reform

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Event Description

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the mass incarceration of children, adolescent neuroscience, and restorative justice. Our distinguished panelists—a judge, a psychologist, and a lawyer rooted in restorative justice —will share their expertise on how we can align justice systems with science and pave the way for more humane and effective pathways forward.

Panelists

  • Moderator: Stephanie Tabashneck, PsyD, JD, Senior Fellow of Law and Applied Neuroscience, Center for Law Brain and Behavior at Harvard Medical School and Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School; Licensed Psychologist and Attorney; and Director, CLBB Neurolaw Library
  • Honorable Nancy Gertner, JD, Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Retired Federal Judge; Author; and Managing Director, Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Mass General Hospital
  • Melissa Wood Bartholomew, JD, MDiv, MSW, PhD, Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and Lecturer on Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Harvard Divinity School; and racial justice and healing practitioner
  • Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD, Executive Director, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior; Associate Managing Director, Juvenile and Young Adult Justice Project, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Former Petrie-Flom Senior Fellow
VIDEO Sentencing Children: Bridging Neuroscience, Justice, and Reform

This event is organized by the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.

Cosponsored by the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School, Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, Youth Advocacy & Policy Lab and the Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP) at Harvard Law School, CLBB NeuroLaw Library, Dana Foundation Career Network in Neuroscience & Society, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.