The Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

New  research by faculty affiliates Marcella Alsan and Crystal S. Yang  suggests that healthcare accreditation of jails may improve access to medical care and lower death rates. 

Faculty Affiliate Carol Steiker argues in Inquest that Biden’s end-of-term commutations saved lives but ultimately lost the moral argument.

Sandra Susan Smith writes about courtroom observers as an accountability tool in tracking policy changes aimed at increasing equity.

New research by Sharad Goel looks at disparate impact in a dataset of 2.2 million pedestrian stop-and-frisk decisions recorded by the NYPD.

New PCJ research looks at the many perils of being released from jail in the middle of the night, an all-too-common practice.

Sandra Susan Smith explores how pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence in the ability to get a job.

Harvard Law Professor Alexandra Natapoff explains the stark inequalities between the top and bottom of the criminal justice system in a lecture to celebrate her appointment as the Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law.

Interview with Sandra Susan Smith, Katy Naples-Mitchell and Haruka Margaret Braun on their research brief on jury exclusion in Massachusetts, Inequitable and Undemocratic.

New PCJ research reveals large racial disparities in trust in law enforcement and a strong association between experiences of police harassment and self-reported chronic health conditions.

New research by Harvard doctoral student Michael Zanger-Tishler looks at algorithmic racial bias in the risk assessment instruments (RAIs) used in the criminal legal system. 

Premal Dharia, executive director of Harvard Law’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, discusses her new anthology on transforming the criminal system, Dismantling Mass Incarceration.

New PCJ report seeks to understand how Boston residents conceptualize healthy, safe, and thriving communities.

New research by Justin de Benedictis-Kessner examines whether mayors’ partisan affiliations lead to differences in crime and policing. 

In a recent interview in the Law and Political Economy Blog , PCJ faculty affiliate Christopher Muller discusses the complex history of the end of slavery and the rise of mass incarceration.