Caren Harp, a former prosecutor and public defender in Arkansas and a law professor at Liberty University, speaks about her role as Administrator of the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention in a recent LA Times interview.

In the piece,Professor Harp discusses her efforts to shift priorities in an office that administers more than $280 million in annual grants to states, localities, and nonprofit organizations.

Read the full interview here.