Tag: Criminal Justice

  • Nation & World

    Looking at role of prosecutors, politics in mass incarceration

    Research by a Harvard doctoral student found that district attorneys push harder for convictions and sentences in election years.

    4 minutes
    Chika Okafor
  • Nation & World

    Just a misdemeanor? Think again

    Criminal justice expert Alexandra Natapoff wrote a book about how the misdemeanor system punishes the poor and people of color. The book has inspired a documentary film, which will be released on March 11.

    13 minutes
    Professor Alexandra Natapoff
  • Campus & Community

    A justice reformer

    Dominique Erney witnessed criminal justice too close to her family, and graduates prepared to fight for reform in the system.

    5 minutes
    Dominique Erney looking up from behind glass
  • Nation & World

    How Michael slipped away

    Danielle Allen talks about her latest book, “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” a memoir of her cousin’s troubled life and death, and an indictment of mass incarceration and the war on drugs.

    12 minutes
    Danielle Allen talks about her latest book, “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” a memoir of her cousin’s short, troubled life.
  • Campus & Community

    Few turning to civilians’ police board

    The report was conducted by a team of researchers led by Christopher E. Stone, a professor of criminal justice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Stone said the review board and the police department’s internal affairs system are suffering for a variety of reasons, some of them quite simple: They are not keeping…

    1 minute