JC in the News
You can access the latest roundup of JC members in the news, appearing in outlets such as The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, NBC News, and The New York Times.
Scholar
- Baskin-Sommers 3
- Bell 10
- Betts 15
- Bozic 1
- Camacho 11
- Canales 1
- Doherty 3
- Forman Jr 21
- Goff 38
- Gohara 7
- Gripp 1
- Hinton 24
- Jackson 1
- Justice 1
- Justice Collaboratory 1
- Katsaros 3
- Kohler-Hausmann 6
- Meares 39
- Nobo 4
- Orihuela 1
- Papachristos 10
- Peyton 1
- Richeson 8
- Sierra-Arévalo 3
- Stanley 6
- Thomas 1
- Tyler 15
- Venkatesh 5
- Wang 7
- Weaver 8
- Yaffe 2

The "Find Something New" Edition
Slate | J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law James Forman, Jr. ’92 was the guest host of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast where the COVID-19 pandemic, cancel culture, and racial justice were discussed.
Black Security and the Conundrum of Policing - A Commentary by Monica Bell
Just Security | Monica Bell is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University.
Racist Policing is Making Black and white Americans question police authority
LSE USAPP | Justice Collaboratory member Jon Jackson’s research on racially targeted policing is featured in the LSE’s USAPP blog.
What the Police really believe
Vox | Justice Collaboratory members Phillip Atiba Goff and Vesla Weaver are featured in Vox about the largely unknown ideology of American policing — and how it justifies racist violence.
Police Training, Satellite Crowding, The Glass Cliff
BYU Radio | Caroline Sarnoff, Executive Director of The Justice Collaboratory speaks with BYU Radio podcast Top of Mind with Julie Rose about procedural justice training for police officers.
Into Resuming Federal Executions
NBC News | Clinical Associate Professor of Law Miriam Gohara was a guest on the NBC News “Into America” podcast where she discussed the death penalty.
How Overpoliced Communities Become Politically Engaged
Niskanen Center Podcast | Justice Collaboratory member Professor Vesla Weaver (Johns Hopkins University) speaks with The Niskanen Center's podcast about The Portals Project, which finds that people in overpoliced neighborhoods have complicated attitudes toward police.
Think racial segregation is over? Here's how the police still enforce it
The Washington Post | Associate Professor of Law Monica C. Bell speaks with The Washington Post about her new paper “Anti-Segregation Policing” and discusses some of the ways in which policing helps perpetuate residential segregation.
With Books and New Focus, Mellon Foundation to Foster Social Equity
New York Times | The New York Times reports on the Million Book Project, funded by a gift from the Mellon Foundation, that will be administered by The Justice Collaboratory with the assistance of Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16, now a YLS Ph.D. candidate, and Elizabeth Hinton, professor of history, African American studies and law.
Policing and Law Enforcement: Further Considerations from Psychological Science
Association for Psychological Science | Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology Tom Tyler’s work on addressing racial bias in the police force is cited in the Association for Psychological Science newsletter, The Observer.
The Argument for Prison Abolition
The Crime Report | Associate Professor of Law Monica Bell ’09 is quoted in The Crime Report article about prison abolition.
Do Police Needs Guns?
NPR | Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares was interviewed on NPR’s Here and Now about the role guns play in law enforcement in the U.S. and other countries.
Police reform requires culture change, not just diversity, advocates say
The World | Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares spoke to PRI’s The World about the limits of focusing solely on diversity when discussing police reform.
Phillip Atiba Goff on reducing racial discrimination in policing
The Economist | Justice Collaboratory member Phillip Atiba Goff is featured in The Economist on the need for better data in policing.
We listened to people in highly policed U.S. communities
Washington Post | Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares’ work on the Portals Policing Project is mentioned in a commentary coauthored by Justice Collaboratory member Vesla Weaver.
How Violent Police Culture Perpetuates Itself
GQ | Justice Collaboratory Member Michael Sierra-Arévalo talks to GQ about his research to better understand the mechanisms driving our nation’s policing crisis.
Obama-Era Policing Proposals Find Some Success, but Ambitious Ideas are Slow-Moving
Wall Street Journal | Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the recommendations made by President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
Cities Grew Safer. Police Budgets Kept Growing
New York Times | Professor Elizabeth Hinton speaks with The New York Times about the history of the war on crime.