Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions,…
Empirical researchers and criminal justice practitioners have generally set aside history in exchange for behavioral models and…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
In her new book, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, HLS Assistant Professor of Law Anna…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
In her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Assistant Professor of Public Policy Yanilda…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s short- and long-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden.…
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…