Tag: Bruce Western

  • Nation & World

    Hard time gets a hard look

    A new graduate seminar gives students a chance to develop ideas on reforming the U.S. criminal justice system.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The costs of inequality: A goal of justice, a reality of unfairness

    America’s prison system houses huge numbers of inmates, many of them serving lengthy mandatory sentences, but research finds little evidence that it produces criminal deterrence.

    24 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What’s past is prologue

    Celebrated author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed how U.S. policy on criminal justice today is still deeply enmeshed with the nation’s fraught racial legacy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard faculty elected to NAS

    Seven Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From prison to poverty

    Harvard sociologist and Radcliffe fellow Bruce Western recently completed a study tracking 122 incarcerated men and women in the Boston area who were released back into society. Western’s research helps shed light on how poverty, along with unaddressed problems, helped shape his subjects’ lives.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Western named Wiener Center director

    Sociologist Bruce Western has been named faculty director at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

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    FAS names Bruce Western professor of sociology

    Bruce Western, a leading social scientist in the field of inequality, whose work is focused on incarceration and labor market stratification, has been appointed professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1. In addition to his appointment in FAS, Western will also direct the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and…

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