Seeing the Child Beneath the Crime (feat. Le'Otis Boswell Johnson, Sons of Sophistication)

“You don’t just wake up one day caught up in this. There’s usually a long line of needs not being met that result in a kid being in this situation.” When a young person finds themselves involved in the juvenile justice system, their defense attorney has the crucial responsibility of considering the challenging circumstances that may have played a role in how they got there. Their job is to help the judge and jury consider the human being—and the child—behind the crime. My guest for this conve...