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There are currently 59 recovery courts in 32 counties in North Carolina, and thousands more across the nation designed to help criminal defendants who have alcohol and other substance use disorders. Many of those courts have been successfully using teleservices to increase client access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration […]

A new CSAFE study by Duke Center for Science and Justice Director Brandon Garrett, Research Director William Crozier and Towson University’s Jeff Kukucka was released online in late July and will appear in the October issue of Forensic Science International. The article “Juror appraisals of forensic evidence: Effects of blind proficiency and cross-examination” found that […]

The Duke Service Effectiveness Research Program in the Duke Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences is currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Associate to join their research team. The candidate will work under the supervision of senior faculty members (and Duke CSJ team members): Drs. Jeffrey Swanson, Allison Robertson, Michele Easter and Marvin Swartz. The position […]

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t slowed down the six students who worked with the Duke Center for Science and Justice this summer. The summer fellowships and internships at the Center provide students an opportunity to learn new information and hone their skills in domains that are useful for the next step in their career, whether it’s […]

The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) funded a Duke Center for Science and Justice Study that reveals the impact of forensic evidence on jurors. The article “Error Rates, Likelihood Ratios, and Jury Evaluation of Forensic Evidence” presents a study by Duke CSJ Director Brandon L. Garrett, JD, Research Director William E. […]

The following book review of Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina by author Seth Kotch was written by Duke Center for Science and Justice Director Brandon Garrett and posted on the Rutgers Newark site. Today, age – and now COVID – and not the execution chamber, are the lethal agents […]

Megan Stevenson, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Margaret Shin, a J.D. Candidate at the same school, recently put together a new reading list of Black economists writing about crime and criminal justice. “In a field where minority voices are often underrepresented, this project seeks to highlight the contributions of Black […]

This week’s Crim Works in Progress presenter was Madalyn K. Wasilczuk, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Wasilczuk’s paper, “How Police Hiring Policies Fail to Account for Emerging Adulthood,” makes a case for the policing profession to reconsider age qualifications for employment in light of the growing body […]