Exploring the Causal Mechanisms Linking Pretrial Detention and Future Penal System Involvement
The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release.
Research
Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement?
Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—ha
Parents and Peers: Gender Stereotypes in the Field of Study
Gender segregation in the field of study is still a pervasive phenomenon in many countries.
Against the best interests of the child: the global injustice of migrant externalization
Countries and regions that have long prided themselves on their immigrant identity and histories of refugee protection are now at the forefront of draconian migrant exclusion practices.
Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
This article tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the U.K.
Status, Growth, and Perceptions of School Quality
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is little research on how these changes affect the public’s perce
Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa
Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises resulting from each hazard is poorly characterized.
Hatred against Roma in times of pandemic
This chapter discusses the historically entrenched practice of minority scapegoating during epidemics, exemplified by the return of anti-Roma racism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prepared Testimony on “Economic Disparities and the Economic Challenges Facing American Familiesâ€
The American economy had pervasive disparities before the pandemic.
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