New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation

New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation


Understanding Youth Violence: A Conversation with Dr. Joel Fein

February 17, 2015

At the kick-off summit for the Minority Youth Violence Prevention

initiative, Dr. Joel Fein, a pediatrician and emergency medicine physician at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,

discusses youth relationships with authority, family dynamics, and how trauma and stress affect the developing brain.

(February 2015)