When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, his action honored a decades-long struggle by grassroots…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
October 12, 2020, Paper, "The number of reported deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US was nearly 205 000 on September…
September 8, 2020, Video: "Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce…
2020, Book: "What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does…
Detaining many to avoid the dangers posed by a few is not only inexcusably unjust, it actually increases the likelihood of the very dangers…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
One of the core tasks of a well-functioning state is providing fair and adequate criminal justice. Recent events have raised concerns that…
Inmate labor fuels prisons. The incarcerated work in prison industries that collaborate with private corporations. Fair labor laws do not…
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and…