Every day, young people enter into California’s criminal justice system. Some are caught up in gang affiliations, others simply in areas of high police surveillance. But often the particularities of their social contexts are entirely ignored after being arrested. Sean Kennedy, executive eirector of the Center for Juvenile Law & Policy at Loyola Law School, works with social forensics teams to bring specific community context information to trial in order to help judges and juries better understand the young people sitting before them in court. Kennedy will explain how the criminal justice system operates for young offenders, and what can be done to address legal inequities for youth from marginalized communities.(Photo credit: Loyola Law School)