Faculty Affiliates researching Racial Disparities
- Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, FAS; Dean of the Division of Social Sciences; Harvard College Professor
- 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, Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, HLS; Executive Faculty Director, Institute to End Mass Incarceration, HLS
- Will Dobbie, Professor of Public Policy, HKS
- Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy, HKS
- Ellis Monk, Associate Professor of Sociology, FAS
- Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, HLS
- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS; Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe
- Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, HKS; Faculty Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
- Crystal S. Yang, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, HLS
Affiliated Programs and Initiatives
Selected Publications
- Smith, Sandra Susan. "Boston continues to fail to earn the Black community’s trust." The Boston Globe, June 17, 2024.
- Smith, Sandra Susan. Bias, Distrust, and Trauma: Racial Disparities in Boston Residents’ Experiences with Law Enforcement and Related Outcomes. Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, May 30, 2024 (updated June 10, 2024).
- Inequitable and Undemocratic: A Research Brief on Jury Exclusion in Massachusetts and a Multipronged Approach to Dismantle It. Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts Research Brief, June 2023.
- Grossman, J., Nyarko, J., & Goel, S. (2023). Racial bias as a multi-stage, multi-actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 1–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12343
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Bruce Western, Yamrot Negussie, and Emily Backes, Editors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
- Arnold, David, Will Dobbie, and Peter Hull. 2022. "Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions." American Economic Review, 112 (9): 2992-3038.
- Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. “The Foundational Lawlessness of the Law Itself: Racial Criminalization & the Punitive Roots of Punishment in America.” Daedalus 151, no. 1 (2022): 107–20.
- Cai, William, Johann Gaebler, Justin Kaashoek, Lisa Pinals, Samuel Madden, and Sharad Goel. "Measuring racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement with large-scale telematics data." PNAS Nexus 1, no. 4 (2022).
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Reducing Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice: Data, Courts, and Systems of Supervision: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (Featured: Sandra Susan Smith and Alexandra Natapoff)
- Elizabeth Tsai Bishop, Brook Hopkins, Chijindu Obiofuma, Felix Owusu. 2020. Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System. A Report by The Criminal Justice Policy Program, Harvard Law School, Submitted to Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
- Muhammad, Khalil. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, 2. Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Arnold, David, Will Dobbie, and Crystal S. Yang. "Racial Bias in Bail Decisions." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133.4 (November 2018): 1885-1932.
- Monk, Ellis. 2018. "The Color of Punishment: African Americans, Skin Tone, and the Criminal Justice System" Ethnic and Racial Studies.