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Learning, Collective Intelligence Emotions have much more power to affect reason than reason does to affect emotions — particularly the emotion of fear. Holy moly. Here is a trauma-informed juvenile justice system reform that swayed the conservative majority in the Georgia legislature, a legislature more inclined to adopt reliance on a deterrence model of crime and punishment. "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. It was used 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. 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." Article: Collective Decision-Making Can Neutralize Politics of fear
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