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Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform
Who is going to do the work of criminal justice reform? Recognizing the capacity limits of even the most reform-minded academic criminologists, this...
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Criminal Justice Reform and Inequality
The criminal legal system is a “stratifying institution” insofar as it reflects inequalities by selecting already marginalized people into the...
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Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers
The integration of evidence-based policy into criminal justice reform – and into police reform specifically – is a daunting but necessary endeavor....
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Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform
How can public opinion research help achieve badly needed criminal justice reforms? Unfortunately, public opinion has frequently been used in ways...
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Who benefits from criminal legal reform? A natural experiment to assess racial disparities in a policy targeting monetary sanctions
ObjectiveTo examine disparities in court fines between American Indian and White convicted persons before and after a South Dakota reform, which...
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Reflections on Criminal Justice Reform: Challenges and Opportunities
Considerable efforts and resources have been expended to enact reforms to the criminal justice system over the last five decades. Concerns about...
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How to Think about Criminal Justice Reform: Conceptual and Practical Considerations
How can we improve the effectiveness of criminal justice reform efforts? Effective reform hinges on shared understandings of what the problem is and...
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Impact of the Reform to Non-custodial Sanctions in Chile
ObjectivesThis paper assesses the impact of the new regime of non-custodial sanctions implemented in Chile in 2013. It aims to contribute to the...
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COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research
Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller & Blumstein (2020) outlined a theoretical research program (TRP) oriented around themes of contagion control...
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Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence
We examine how religion contributes to rehabilitation, which we conceptualize as moral reform and operationalize in terms of self-identity,...
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Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States
Marijuana enforcement remains a major point of entry to the criminal justice system despite broad state level reforms. The knowledge base on...
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Policing protests: an experimental evaluation of the impact of protester race on support for police reform
ObjectivesTo assess how media images of protests calling for police reform affect public support for police reform policies.
MethodsParticipants...
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Impact of County-level health infrastructure on participation in a reform effort to reduce the use of jail for individuals with mental health disorders
BackgroundThe national Step** Up Initiative has attracted over 500 counties interested in reducing the use of jail for individuals with mental...
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Juvenile Sentencing Reform
In 1899, the first juvenile court was implemented in Cook County, Illinois. Since its inception, the juvenile justice system has experienced three...
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Criminal justice reform guided by evidence: social control works—The Academy of Experimental Criminology 2022 Joan McCord Lecture
ObjectiveJoan McCord was an experimental criminologist who advocated for evaluating social programs for efficacy, benefits, and potential harms to...
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The Future of Police Reform
The future of police reform might be best predicted by looking to the recent past, where we find countless proposals for change. But merely looking...
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Esca** the Sisyphean Trap: Systemic Criminal Justice System Reform
When calls for reforming criminal justice arise, they frequently target particular—rather than systems-level—problems. This approach can be effective...
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Beyond cycles - police watchdog reform mechanics
This paper presents a new framework for better understanding the mechanics of police oversight reforms. It outlines a case study of New Zealand...
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Reform of Prisons, the Penal Code and Legal System
The impulse for prison reform between 1750 and 1850 derived from two key influences—those of religion and of classicist criminology. This chapter...