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Harvard Kennedy School offers new race and policy course for incoming students

Racial justice leaders are reeling from the 'hypocrisy' in the police response to the US Capitol riots -- Featured: Cornell William Brooks

What Trump’s pardons say about criminal justice -- Op-ed by Nancy Gertner and Dean A. Strang

Burrell case exposes need for reform of jailhouse snitch prosecutions -- Featured: Alexandra Natapoff

What Would Society Look Like Without Police? -- Featured: Sandra Susan Smith

Incarcerated people are suffering from covid-19 more than most. They should be among the first vaccinated. -- Op-ed by Danielle Allen

Center for Policing Equity Co-Founder Discusses Reimagining Community Safety at Kennedy School Event

We’ve seen these proposed Boston police reforms before — they don’t work -- Op-ed by Sandra Susan Smith

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Events

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

Spring Speaker Lineup

The work ahead: policy challenges and solutions for the new administration

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Past Events
Research

A conversation with Yanilda González about her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy

Q&A with Sandra Susan Smith: Understanding injustices and striving to make lives better

Alexandra Natapoff on how our massive misdemeanor system makes America more unequal

Triple Disadvantage: Neighborhood Networks of Everyday Urban Mobility and Violence in U.S. Cities -- New article by Rob Sampson

Civic Responses to Police Violence -- Working paper by Desmond Ang and John Tebes

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