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Upcoming Panel Event: Perspectives on American Gun Violence

Perspectives on American Gun Violence: Finding New Synergies for Problem-Solving from Public Health, Public Policy, Crime Control, Economics, Justice, Advocacy, Politics, and the Media Date: November 19, 2024 Time: 12pm – 1:30pm  Register Here The epidemic of gun violence in the United States is a multifaceted problem that claimed nearly 47,000 lives in 2023, accounting for […]

Effects of COVID-19 on Community Programs for Justice-involved Adults with Behavioral Health Disorders

by Dr. Allison Robertson, Associate Professor, Services Effectiveness Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine Much important attention is focusing on how the COVID-19 pandemic is gravely affecting people who are incarcerated in US jails and prisons, a crisis that is worsening daily. There are also very serious concerns about justice-involved people who […]

Our NC Fines and Fees Data Website

Today we launched a new CSJ report on the explosion of fines and fees in North Carolina.  As a companion to the report, we created, with outstanding work by Caroline Levenson, Duke Class of ’22, a data resource website here.  The About page where you start, gives you a brief overview of our findings – […]

The Innocence Files

The new Netflix series, the “Innocence Files,” features the stories of eight Innocence Project exoneration cases. The exonerates are: Kennedy Brewer, Levon Brooks, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Franky Carrillo, Keith Harward, Thomas Haynesworth, Chester Hollman II, and Kenneth Wyniemko. The focus of the series is flawed forensics, eyewitness misidentifications, and prosecutorial misconduct  – three (of many) […]