Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require employers to remove conviction and arrest…
The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release. Often overlooked, the decisions made…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we develop a new measure of civilian crime…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We estimate the causal impact
of these events on…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate impacts of these events on the educational and…
