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Collective Decision-making Can Neutralize Politics of Fear [jjie.org]

 

By Judge Steven Teske and Naomi Smoot Evans, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

Judge Teske first used collective decision-making beginning in 2003 to reform his local juvenile justice system, which has netted an 80% decline in juvenile arrests. Most striking, however, is how it was employed at the statewide level in the Georgia juvenile justice reform effort to net a 57% reduction in youth committed to state facilities, which resulted in the closure of three secured facilities. 

Most striking is that juvenile arrests have declined 60% since 2008 and continued to fall following the enactment of the reforms.

The relevance of these outcomes is that they were influenced by reforms that are counterintuitive to the conservative majority in the Georgia legislature, and they were passed unanimously. This accomplishment was made possible using the collective decision-making approach that effectively depoliticized the policymaking process.

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