Christopher Stone

Christopher Stone Christopher Stone is Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice. His current research focuses on comparative approaches to police accountability and the internal alignment of national criminal justice systems. From 1994 to 2004, he served as director of the Vera Institute of Justice, where his own work focused on institutional reform of police, prosecution, and public defense services both in the United States and internationally. Stone also serves as chair of Altus, an alliance of nongovernmental organizations and academic centers in Russia, India, Nigeria, Chile, Brazil, and the United States that are jointly pursuing justice sector reform. Stone received his AB from Harvard, an MPhil. in criminology from the University of Cambridge, and his JD from the Yale Law School. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary OBE for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom. He became faculty director of the university-wide Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations in January 2008.

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Recent Publications

Stone, Christopher. "Tracing Police Accountability in Theory and Practice." Theoretical Criminology 11 no. 2 (2007).

Foglesong, Todd, and Christopher Stone. "Measuring the Contribution of Criminal Justice Systems to the Control of Crime and Violence: Lessons from Jamaica and the Dominican Republic." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP07-019, April 2007.

Stone, Christopher. "Crime, Justice Systems, and Development Assistance" in The World Bank Legal Review: Law, Equity, and Development, Volume 2. Nijhoff, 2006.

Stone, Christopher. "Crime, Justice, and Growth in South Africa: Toward a Plausible Contribution from Criminal Justice to Economic Growth." Center for International Development, Harvard University, Working Paper No. 131, August 2006.

Stone, Christopher. "A Tale of Two Cities: Boston, New York, and Crime." Boston Globe, February 12, 2006.

Stone, Christopher. "Preparing a Fresh Assault on Ethnic Profiling." Justice Initiatives, Open Society Justice Initiative, June 2005.

Stone, Christopher, Brian Buchner, and Scott Dash. "Crowd Control That Can Kill: Can American Police Get a Grip on Their New, 'Less-Lethal' Weapons Before they Kill Again?" Rappaport Institute Policy Brief PB-2005-6 (October 24, 2005).

Stone, Christopher, Joel Miller, Monica Thornton, and Jennifer Trone. "Supporting Security, Justice, and Development: Lessons for a New Era." Vera Institute of Justice, June 2005.

Stern, Donald K., Raymond Downs, Robert P. Gittens, Janice W. Howe, Steve Ijames, Patrick J. King, and Christopher E. Stone. "Report of the Commission Investigating the Death of Victoria Snelgrove." Boston Police Department Independent Commission, May 25, 2005.

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