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
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The problems with Chicago’s gang-centric narrative of gun violence
Injustice Watch | Andrew Papachristos is quoted in an analysis of the rhetoric surrounding gun violence in Chicago.
12 books that best explain America's incarceration system, according to criminal justice lawyers
Business Insider | James Forman Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning story, "Locking Up Our Own," is included in a list of the best, nuanced criminal justice books.
ANZSEBP Conference: US policing needs to ditch ‘warrior’ culture to win back public trust and confidence
Policing Insight | Professor Tom Tyler outlines the opportunity for a new approach to US policing, and how evidence could be used to support that shift.
Corporate America's $50 Billion Promise
The Washington Post | Goff is quoted in a a Post analysis of racial justice pledges after George Floyd’s death that reveals the limits of corporate power to effect change.
This Is How The White Population Is Actually Changing Based On New Census Data
NPR | Jennifer Richeson is quotes in a story on the complexity of new census data results.
There Are No 'Child Pyscopaths' Because We Can't Diagnose Them. Yet.
Vice | Arielle Baskin-Sommers comments on a new wave in psychology suggesting that people with psychopathy could be helped much earlier, if only we acknowledged the scope of their issues.
More Foe Than Friend
The Nation | James Foreman and his book are cited in an analysis of the Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equity.
Violence spike of 2020 widened familiar safety gap between Chicago neighborhoods, analysis shows
GM Today | Andrew Papachristos' research analyzing homicide rates by neighborhood in Chicago is featured in an article on the area's widening crime gap.
Biden's plan to spend billions on community policing is bad policy
The Hill | Michael Sierra-Arévalo writes an opinion piece featured in The Hill on how community policing is, at best, a bad bet to reduce violence.
A Mental Health Crisis Is Not a Crime
The New York Times | Phillip Atiba Goff and Representative Porter wrote an op-ed on the benefits of the Mental Health Justice Act.
‘America on Fire’: How police oppression fuels protests by Black citizens
CS Monitor | Historian Elizabeth Hinton analyzes the cycle of police aggression and Black community protests since the 1960s in “America on Fire”
125 Books Becoming TV Series We Cannot Wait to See
Rotten Tomatoes | Sudhir Venkatesh’s book, Gang Leader for the Day, is being developed into a visual project with AMC.
The Unknown History of Black Uprisings
The New Yorker | In a new book, the historian Elizabeth Hinton reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality.
Covid News: The New York Times
The New York Times | Dr. Wang gives insight on prisoner vaccination rates.
The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions
The Atlantic | Forman and his book, Locking Up Our Own, were cited in an idea piece on police unions.
Hate-Crime Laws Don’t Work as Their Supporters Intended
The Atlantic | Tom R. Tyler's research was quoted in an article over hate-crime statutes.
Can Criminal Justice Reform Survive a Wave of Violent Crime?
The New Republic | Forman and his book, Locking Up Our Own, were cited in an article on the impact of rising violent crime on CJR.
Killings spiked in the US and Republicans blame calls to ‘defund the police.’ But they are also rising in cities that increased spending on cops.
The Baltimore Sun | Hinton commented on COVID and mass unemployment and general anxiety in an article on rising crime.