Experts argue that more work is needed to remove the stigma of a criminal record on job applications
Sandra Susan Smith and Christopher Herring find that ‘banning the box’ is just the beginning.
2022, Book: "Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is…
BOOK DESCRIPTIONWhat are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions…
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and…
The Decriminalization and Policing Working Group of the Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts has released a…
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require…
We are excited to announce the 2022 recipients of Program in Criminal Justice Graduate Student Research Grants. The award process was open…
In studies of discrimination, researchers often seek to estimate a causal effect of race or gender on outcomes. For example, in the…
Benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
In the dominant paradigm for designing equitable machine learning systems, one works to ensure that model predictions satisfy various…