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Latest Developments
- Vera researchers recently surveyed prosecutors and support staff in the district attorney’s offices of Milwaukee and Mecklenburg counties about their attitudes and perceptions in relation to their work in the criminal justice system. The survey was based on an instrument used in Decision-Making in the Juvenile Justice System in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, 1999-2000 by Rosemary Sarri.
- ASI convened its first new associates orientation meeting in San Jose, California, late last year. Twenty four new associates learned more about ASI and their role within the initiative. The meeting was also attending by staff from the Office on Violence Against Women, Vera, and other partner organizations.
- Zaire Z. Dinzey Flores, who recieved her Ph.D. in sociology and public policy from the University of Michigan in June 2005, is the sixth Mellon Fellow on Race, Crime, and Justice. At Vera, Dr. Dinzey Flores will examine the impact of environmental crime prevention initatives on communities in Puerto Rico and New York City in a work entitled "Community Matters: Environmental Crime Prevention, Security, and Racial Justice."
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Overview
There are a number of programs and projects that focus on issues of justice outside the work conducted by Vera's three Centers.
The Accessing Safety Initiative helps the federal Office of Violence Against Women make services and facilities more accessible to women with disabilities and Deaf women who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; and San Diego County, California, Vera's Prosecution and Racial Justice program is developing tools to help prosecutors identify and address patterns of racial disparity in decision making.
The Child Welfare, Health, and Justice Program researches better coordination between child welfare, public health and other government agencies. The program is currently exploring issues related to the enrollment of approximately 465 foster children in clinical trials of HIV and AIDS treatments during the late 1980s and 1990s.. The Subtance Use and Mental Health Program conducts research on justice system responses to the needs of substance users and those with psychiatric disorders.
The Guardianship Project serves as legal guardian for people whose age or illness has left them unable to care for themselves, the majority of whom are elderly and economically disadvantaged.
Based in Los Angeles, the Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC) cooperates with monitors, law enforcement, and civic and government officials across the nation to strengthen police oversight and advance effective, respectful, and publicly accountable policing.
The Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Race, Class, and Justice supports scholars of diverse backgrounds whose work at the intersection of law and the social sciences considers how issues of race permeate the discussion of crime and the operation of the criminal justice system.
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