NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung and Erin Stewart ’21, a Skadden Fellow at Citizens for Juvenile Justice, are co-authors of “Criminalizing a “Rough Life”: A Study of Systems Involvement Among Incarcerated People in Massachusetts”— a report illuminating the results of Phase 1 of Northeastern’s Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline (C2P) jail and prison survey. The ongoing survey project seeks to address gaps in publicly available data about systems involvement and childhood experiences among those currently incarcerated in Massachusetts. The survey results highlight the failure of the state’s child welfare and education systems to provide the necessary supports to address the social, emotional, behavioral and academic needs of some of the system’s most vulnerable youth. “The survey results demonstrate that the systems designed to protect and support vulnerable youth in Massachusetts are failing to do so,” said Hartung, principal investigator of the grant-funded research project. “Moreover, the study highlights overrepresentation of BIPOC and other marginalized children at virtually every marker along the pipeline.”