Faculty Affiliates researching Mass Criminalization and Incarceration
- Danielle Allen, Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; James Bryant Conant University Professor
- Marcella Alsan, Professor of Public Policy, HKS
- Cornell William Brooks, Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations; Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice, HKS; Director, The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice
- Andrew Manuel Crespo, Professor of Law, HLS; Executive Faculty Director, Institute to End Mass Incarceration, HLS
- Will Dobbie, Professor of Public Policy, HKS
- Nancy Gertner, Senior Lecturer on Law, HLS
- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS; Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe
- Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, HLS
- Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice; Faculty Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
- Kaia Stern, Lecturer on Education, HGSE
- Dehlia Umunna, Clinical Professor of Law, HLS; Faculty Deputy Director, Criminal Justice Institute, HLS
- Adaner Usmani, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies
- Crystal S. Yang, Professor of Law, HLS
Affiliated Programs and Initiatives
- The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice (HLS)
- The Health Inequality Lab (HKS)
- Institute to End Mass Incarceration (HLS)
- Prison Studies Project
- The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice (HKS)
- The Social Costs of Pretrial, Court-Ordered Electronic Monitoring (PCJ)
- Why Prosecuting Nonviolent Misdemeanor Offenses Yields Poorer Outcomes (PCJ)
- California’s Automatic Record Clearance: Understanding the Potential Impacts on Justice-Involved Individuals (PCJ)
- The Difference A Day Makes: How Spending Even One Day in Jail Can Have Devastating Consequences (PCJ)
- The Effect of Non-Prosecution on Racial Disparities (PCJ)
Selected Publications
- Alsan, Marcella, Crystal S. Yang, James R. Jolin, Lucy Tu, and Josiah D. Rich. "Health Care in US Correctional Facilities—A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right." New England Journal of Medicine 388, no. 9 (2023): 847-852.
- Smith, Sandra Susan, and Cierra Robson. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-014, September 2022.
- Sandra Susan Smith. Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety. Arnold Ventures Public Safety Series Discussion Paper, July 2022.
- Andrew Manuel Crespo, "No Justice, No Pleas: Subverting Mass Incarceration Through Defendant Collective Action." Fordham Law Review 90(5), April 2022.
- Isabella Jorgensen and Sandra Susan Smith, "It’s time for Massachusetts to eliminate cash bail." CommonWealth, April 30, 2022.
- Jorgensen, Isabella, and Sandra Susan Smith. "The Current State of Bail Reform in the United States: Results of a Landscape Analysis of Bail Reforms Across All 50 States." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-033, December 2021.
- Sandra Susan Smith, Tom Shirley, Damarcus Bell, and Isabella Jorgensen. "Pretrial Detention." Social Policy Data Lab, 2021.
- ‘I Just Felt So Violated’: Harvard Researcher’s Study Shows ‘Devastating’ Effects of Jailing People Pretrial. National Partnership for Pretrial Justice.
- Kaia Stern. "The Keeper and the Kept." Inquest, July 27, 2021.
- Alexandra Natapoff. Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State, 133 Harv. L. Rev. F. 147 (2020).
- Will Dobbie, Hans Grönqvist, Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme, and Mikael Priks. The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration. NBER Paper No. 24186 (2019).
- Allen, Danielle. (2018). Cuz : An American Tragedy. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.
- Natapoff, Alexandra. (2018). Punishment without crime : How our massive misdemeanor system traps the innocent and makes America more unequal. New York: Basic Books.