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PCJ Faculty Chair Announced
David T. Ellwood, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy announced the appointment of Bruce Western as Faculty Chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PCJ)...continuned at PCJ News
Recent and Upcoming Events
- April 17 Recognizing Public Value: Book Talk with Mark H. Moore, Tiziana Dearing, Stephen Goldsmith, and Tony Saich
- February 28 Careers Seminar with Christine Cole and Julie Wilson
- February 12 The House I Live In film screening and discussion with the film's writer and director, Eugene Jarecki, and rominent Harvard Law School professor, Charles Ogletree
- February 6 Facebook Launch
- December 12 Building a 21st Century Policy to Address Domestic and Global Drug Challenges with Directors of US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Counternarcotics Working Group
- November 14 UN Rule of Law Engagement in Post Conflict States – Where Now? visiting Fellow discusses Rule of Law with HKS Criminal Justice PIC
- October 3 A Discussion About Youth Violence in Scotland visting Fellow shares insights with HKS Criminal Justice PIC
- April 30 Great American City panel discussion of the new book by Robert Sampson
- April 17 Heaven's Rain screening of the film by HKS alumni Brooks Douglass MC/MPA '02
Visit the PCJ Events page for more information
New Additions to the PCJ Video Gallery
Watch these videos featuring PCJ Fellow and Summer Interns Ben Harmon JD/MPP 2014, Piper Kamins MPP 2012, Douglas Barrios MPAID 2012, Yael Bar-tur MPP 2012.
In the News
- Todd Foglesong's remarks to UN at meeting on "Rule of Law"; Making Ends Meet: Connecting the UN’s Hopes for the Rule of Law with National Ambitions for Justice
- Marieke Liem's article, Homicide offender recidivism: A review of the literature (Aggression and Violent Behavior/ScienceDirect.com)
- PCJ Faculty Chair, Bruce Western and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Marieke Liem in The Prison Problem (Harvard Magazine)
- Anthony Braga presented the topic, Making Gun Laws Enforceable at Gun Policy Summit, Presentation, Video, and Book Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
- Marieke Liem's commentary on sentencing minors to life without parole in The Fate of Juvenile Lifers (The Providence Journal)
- Policing for, and with, the community (Harvard Gazette)
- Christine Cole Community Policing: Redrawing the Thin Blue Line (radio broadcast)
- Christopher Stone A Better Defense Leads to a Better Justice System (article)
- Todd Foglesong and Christopher Stone Finding New Indicators of Safety and Justice in Development (article)
- NYPD Crimson: New York's finest at the Kennedy School (HKS Magazine)
- Department of Justice Announces New Publication Examining the Rising Costs of Policing in the United States
- David Hureau and Christopher Winship in Boston Globe article about StreetSafe Boston Reaching out on the roiling streets; Workers make progress connecting with city gang members"
- Braga Co-Authors New Book Policing Problem Places: Crime Hot Spots and Effective Prevention
- NIJ and Harvard University Team Up for Second Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety
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Photo courtesy of Natalie Black MPP 2011
From HKS Article: HKS Class sends students to Haiti, Sierra Leone
Samples of our Research
See Research & Publications or any of the following sections to locate reports, working papers, externally published articles, as well as internal news about research conducted in the following practice areas:
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Cross-Branch Collaboration: What Can We Learn from the Collaboration Between Courts and the Division of Youth Services in Missouri? Perspectives on State Court Leadership
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Keeping Courts Funded: Recommendations on How Courts Can Avoid the Budget Axe Perspectives on State Court Leadership
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Courts are Conversations: An Argument for Increased Engagement by Court Leaders Perspectives on State Court Leadership
- Juror and Jury Use of New Media: A Baseline Exploration Perspectives on State Court Leadership
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Courts are Conversations: An Argument for Increased Engagement by Court Leaders Perspectives on State Court Leadership
- Opinions as the Voice of the Court Perspectives on State Court Leadership
- A Case for Court Governance Principles Perspectives on State Court Leadership
- Police Leadership Challenges in a Changing World New Perspectives in Policing
- Exploring the Role of the Police in Prisoner Reentry New Perspectives in Policing
- Herding Lions: Shared Leadership of State Trial Courts Perspectives on State Court Leadership
- A Case for Court Governance Principles Perspectives on State Court Leadership
- Aligning Indicators and Ambitions: How to Improve Indicators Used in Programs to Reduce Violence Against Women and Girls Indicators in Development Safety & Justice
- Police Discipline: A Case for Change New Perspectives in Policing
- Prison Exit Samples as a Source for Indicators in Pretrial Detention
- Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South
- Moving the Work of Criminal Investigators Towards Crime Control New Perspectives in Policing
- Measuring the Performance of Criminal Justice Systems
- China: Empirical Research & Criminal Justice Policy Reform
- The Persistent Pull of Police Professionalism New Perspectives in Policing
- Gangs, Guns, & Urban Violence
- Executive Sessions (all)