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.
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- 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
Louisiana releases Henry Montgomery, but so many 'juvenile lifers' remain behind bars
MSNBC | Dwayne Betts (‘16) pens an op-ed for MSNBC about Henry Montgomery, who walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, after almost 58 years.
St. Paul city attorney's office to participate in study on the public's perception of the legal system
Pioneer Press | The St. Paul and Columbus attorney's offices are the two sites selected for a two-year project to assess the public's perception of the fairness of the legal system in a project spearheaded by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, in partnership with Yale Law School's Justice Collaboratory and LaGratta Consulting.
Phillip Atiba Goff: How can communities reimagine their approach to public safety?
NPR | Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff analyzes data on how racial bias affects police behavior.
Phillip Atiba Goff: How can communities reimagine their approach to public safety?
NPR | Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff analyzes data on how racial bias affects police behavior.
Local elections yield mix results on police reform
NPR | Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Phillip Atiba Goff, CEO of the Center for Policing Equity, about the different police reform initiatives on ballots in cities across the country.
America can’t fix policing without fixing the country’s gun problem
VOX | Tracey Meares and Michael Sierra-Arévalo comment on how America’s tremendous number of firearms makes it much harder to reform policing.
Opinion:'A police film': How do we manage between citizens and uniformed men?
The Washington Post | Rodrigo Canales' research is cited in a Spanish language Washington Post review of "A Police Film," a move inspired by his research.
Promising Results For Community-Based Violence Intervention
The Trace | Andrew Papachristos has been studying anti-violence groups like READI and CRED, which offer employment, education, and other resources to people at the highest risk of being victims and perpetrators of gun violence.
Anti-violence programs are working. But can they make a dent in Chicago’s gun violence?
WBEZ Chicago | Northwestern University sociology professor Andrew Papachristos discusses Chicago's street outreach programs to reduce gun violence.
A new program reaches out to the front line of anti-violence efforts in Chicago
WBEZ Chicago | Andrew Papachristos comments on Chicago’s plan to reduce high levels of gun violence with an anti-violence strategy known as street outreach.
Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes
The New Yorker | Elizabeth Hinton's 2016 book “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime" is cited to illustrate how law enforcement's undercover operations are often concentrated in poor Black neighborhoods.
‘It feels like the start of something’: Reginald Dwayne Betts on his groundbreaking prison library project
The Guardian (UK) | The lawyer, poet and recent MacArthur genius grant recipient talks about his initiative Freedom Reads which offers inmates access to books across the US.
Trying adolescents as adults, even for murder, is wrong
NY Daily | Arielle Baskin-Sommmers writes about her research supporting ending adult waivers.
Center for Policing Equity Launches ‘Justice Navigator’ Policing Data Tool
Black Star News | Phillip Atiba Goff discusses the launch of an interactive digital platform that provides communities and law enforcement agencies with streamlined access to public safety data, policy insights and analyses.
From Jail To Law School To Genius Grant
Above the Law | Reginald Dwayne Betts’ 16 is one of the recent winners of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, or “genius grant.”
President Biden Announces Members of President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
The White House | President Biden announced Jennifer Richeson as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Numbers, not narratives, remedy misperceptions of the racial wealth gap
The Financial | Jennifer Richeson's latest co-authored study show that the use of data is more effective than personal stories in helping people understand the magnitude and structural causes of the Black-white wealth gap in the United States.
‘Defund the Police’ dominated 2020. What happened?
MSNBC | Monica Bell is quoted in an article on cities restoring their police budgets as Democrats run from the "defund the police" movement.