PlaceLab Justice (PLJ) is a working group within PlaceLab that focuses on research and advocacy around issues of place justice, public violence, and juvenile justice reform.  It was started upon request of participants in a qualitative study about the history of violence in Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover neighborhood. Since the 1980s, thousands of juveniles have been charged and incarcerated as adults and were serving life sentences without the opportunity for parole. In 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States declared life sentences without parole unconstitutional for juvenile offenders (Miller vs. Alabama); in 2016 this ruling was applied retroactively to all who had received Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP) sentences (Montgomery vs. Louisiana). One of those juveniles to be resentenced is Keith Hicks, a Beltzhoover man incarcerated in 1997 at age 17 as a JLWOP. PLJ worked with a community filmmaker to create an advocacy documentary—Juvenile Justice in Context (2021)—to describe the circumstances of youth growing up amidst the crack epidemic and gang culture in Pittsburgh in the 1990s.  The film was originally created as a mitigation video for Keith’s resentencing hearing, and weaves together findings from adolescent neuroscience, qualitative research about neighborhood violence, and Keith’s story. It presents a compelling picture of the context in which violence arises in communities and how adolescents are impacted.