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Carol Brook, a chief federal defender in the Northern District of Illinois, describes the role of federal defenders and explains why the right to an attorney is…
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A neighbour murdered her father with an axe and injured her. Many years later she finds freedom from her anger and bitterness after a face to face with him.
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Professor Daniel S. Nagin of Carnegie Mellon University talks with Vera Institute of Justice Director Michael Jacobson about how crime and incarceration can be reduced…
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David Garland describes his ideas about penal populism and uses California's Three Strikes Law as an example. This video is part of the Neil A. Weiner Research…
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In this animated interview, the sociologist Bruce Western explains the current inevitability of prison for certain demographics of young black men and how it's…
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This 2017 documentary looks at Connecticut's effort to rethink how parole works in order to reduce the state’s prison population. This journalism is…
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Prof. Bruce Western talks about the issues formerly incarcerated people face upon reentry, the role of family support after prison, and how trauma challenges the ethics…
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Running out of a church basement in East Baltimore, the nonprofit Turnaround Tuesday has a high success rate of finding jobs for formerly incarcerated people. Its…
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Just over half of the African American male population in New Orleans is unemployed, partly because of former encounters with the criminal justice system that make it…
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NewsHour Weekend profiles an innovative probation program in Hawaii that has been so successful in reforming offenders and keeping them out of prison, it's now…
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Risk Assessment Tool Helps Probation Officers
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts developed the Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA) tool to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of post-conviction…Risk Assessment Tool Helps Probation Officers
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In this interview, Edward Latessa, Ph.D., Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, discusses the skills and competencies needed for…
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In this interview, Edward Latessa, Ph.D., Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, discusses improving correctional interventions in…Improving Correctional Interventions, Edward…
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In this interview, Edward Latessa, Ph.D., Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, discusses why a combination of both program…
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In this interview, Edward Latessa, Ph.D., Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, discusses the importance of using research to…
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In this interview, Edward Latessa, Ph.D., Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, discusses risk assessments for criminal behavior…
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