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Cash bail has failed. COVID-19 exposed an urgent need for reform of incarceration, pre-trial detention, and cash bail.

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If we think that violence is only the aggregation of individuals making bad choices, then that is what our policies are going to reflect … We need to look at both—the individual and the collective.

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We are all tech builders. Sudhir Venkatesh explains how tech companies work in collaboration with us to develop the technologies that influence our lives--and why that challenges social change.

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Understanding the online fear factor. The JC teamed up with PhD candidate Ishita Chordia to examine how people discuss crime on Nextdoor and the potential for using design to decrease fear of crime. Check out our findings. Tech Policy Press
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Overgeneralizations about the adolescent brain can influence how we perceive and treat young people within society and our legal system.

Neuroscientist BJ Casey from Barnard College sets the record straight. Art by Chidinma Dureke

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Abolition requires building a new society that invests in safety & security for everyone.

Abolitionist anthropologist, Catherine Besteman of Colby College & Leo Hylton show us what that would look like in Maine.

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Gun violence is one of the most toxic threats to community vitality. Oakland and Stockton, CA offer lessons on how local violence reduction efforts require a process of organizational change, management, and governance at the city level.

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“When a coup against the democratic regime happens and it’s not punished, that is a very strong indicator of the end of the rule of law and the victory of that authoritarian movement,” said Stanley, the author of “How Fascism Works.”
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The Notebook: Emily LaGratta partnered with nearly 20 U.S. courts and State Justice Institute to find out if people are experiencing courts as just and fair, using the procedural justice framework. The responses may surprise you.

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Tom R. Tyler expuso hoy sobre 'Perspectivas públicas sobre la legitimidad de los poderes judiciales: ¿Qué influye en la opinión de las personas?' en la primera conferencia del ciclo que organizamos en colaboración con JusticeCollaboratory de Yale Law School.

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Miriam Gohara & Richard Morales reflect on excavating hope through art during the darkest times. The art Morales created in prison is 'evidence of a person not giving up on himself, rejecting narratives of worthlessness, and persisting in making good.'

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Today we kick off our conference series with Mexico's Supreme Court. JC co-founder Tom Tyler will speak about trust and legitimacy today.

Congratulations to JC Co-founder Tracey Meares for being named a 2024 Fellow by The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS)! The AAPSS
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'Landscaping aims to veil the prison project and defuse these potent sites of state power and human suffering.' Dana Greene shares the images and irony of prison landscaping in The Notebook article, Optical Illusions.

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'In the aftermath of unjustified police killings, the first measures often address the law enforcement tactics that led to the deaths. Those changes are vulnerable when communities raise concerns over crime...' -JC Member Phillip Atiba Goff Policing Equity
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Selective Hearing: Why Black Demands for Public Safety Leads to More Police and Prisons--a conversation between Vesla Mae Weaver and Elizabeth Hinton

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In our latest Member Spotlight, we talk to Professor Marisol Orihuela about the Mental Health Justice Clinic at Yale Law School. Marisol Orihuela Yale Law School
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Listen to JC Executive Director Caroline Nobo discuss the uniqueness of The Notebook on lovebabz radio show!
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