About MDRC

T-Pederson is a Technical Research Assistant in MDRC’s Youth Development, Criminal Justice, and Employment policy area. She currently works on the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternative to Contempt project. T-Pederson graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience. At Brown, she worked as a research assistant in the psychology department and wrote an honors thesis on the impact of early life adversity on child development.
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Melanie Skemer, Dan Bloom, Dina A. R. Israel, Louisa Treskon, Douglas Phillips, Rebecca Behrmann, Caroline Mage, Jennifer (Jenny) Hausler, Yana Kusayeva, Cassandra T-Pederson, Jayce Helpley, Anna KylerThe Office of Child Support Enforcement launched the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt ( PJAC ) demonstration to test the efficacy of incorporating procedural justice principles into child support practices as a cost-effective alternative to contempt. In this context, contempt is a legal action involving the use of civil court proceedings against...