VIDEO: Jason Stanley is The Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and an honorary professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. We spoke to Professor Stanley about his new book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.

Gideon Yaffe is Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology at Yale. We spoke to Gideon about his fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (CABS) where he has sought to understand the elusive concept of meaningfulness in life. Specifically: Under what conditions does a bad event nonetheless add to the meaningfulness of the life of which it is a part?

James Forman Jr. is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. We spoke to Professor Forman about his upcoming book Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change, edited in partnership with Premal Dharia (Harvard Law School) and Maria Hawilo (Loyola University Law School). Available this July, this collection of writings on ending mass incarceration features advocates, experts, and formerly incarcerated people.

JC Member Andrew Papachristos is the John G. Searle Professor of Sociology and Director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. He is also the Faculty Director of CORNERS: the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science. Papachristos is one of the world’s leading experts at applying network science to the study of crime, violence, policing, and urban neighborhoods.

Marisol Orihuela is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She recently launched the Mental Health Justice Clinic at Yale Law School. She has also taught the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic and the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.

Inspired by Vincent Schiraldi’s new book Mass Supervision, The Justice Collaboratory, in partnership with the Law and Racial Justice Center, hosted a panel discussion on the topic of probation and parole, and the illusion of safety and freedom.

Vesla Weaver is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She has contributed to scholarly debates around the persistence of racial inequality, colorism in the United States and the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons.

Dr. BJ Casey is the Christina L. Williams Professor of Neuroscience at Barnard College – Columbia University and a world leader in the field of developmental neuroscience.

Schooling in the United States has never been a public good, nor has “the public good” been its primary goal. Since its origins in the early nineteenth century, schooling has been a white good, designed to promote white advantage. Three mechanisms, among many, have been key to this process: the relationship of schooling to place, the knowledge that schools impart, and the hobbling of brown and Black children.

If insanity is defined by doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results, it is apt to call the nation’s current approach to policing insane. After each high-profile incident of police violence, the same question is asked by the public, policymakers law enforcement leaders alike: how can we change police culture?

The Justice Collaboratory launched its inaugural course at Yale College last fall. Titled Justice & Society, the class aimed to engage in the meaningful study of community and the role of the criminal legal system in uplifting or impeding overall community vitality.

Crime and public safety played a starring role in the Midterm election cycle with both parties centering the debate around policing and punishment and resorting to rhetoric and platitudes like “tough on crime” and “defund the police.” Both parties missed the larger point that voters understood: You can’t police your way to a safe and thriving community.

The Justice Collaboratory is immensely proud of our member Emily Wang, MD, MAS, professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), and public health at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), on being named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Justice Collaboratory member scholars and researchers were honored to present ground-breaking research at the 7th Global Law and Society Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

The global resurgence of white supremacy is a scourge on all that we value at the Justice Collaboratory and one that we all must actively oppose.

Over the pandemic, to help control the rapid spread of COVID throughout prisons, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) released thousands incarcerated individuals to a home confinement program.

Through the Center for Policing Equity, Justice Collaboratory Member Phillip Atiba Goff is responding to the urgent need to redesign public safety systems and end the cycle of failures that steals children from their childhoods.

On March 4th, we joined Justice Collaboratory member Reginald Dwayne Betts in celebration of Freedom Reads.

The Justice Collaboratory welcomes three new members to our community.

The Justice Collaboratory announces its 2022 theme - community vitality.