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- 09/22/2011
The Vera Institute of Justice has been partnering with leaders in government and civil society to improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety for 50 years. This report provides an overview of its work, along with highlights of some of the current projects extending Vera's record of accomplishment.
- 07/13/2010
To provide better understanding of domestic violence among African American men returning from prison and their partners, researchers for Vera’s Safe Return Initiative organized focus groups of men and women with relevant experience of these issues. This report presents the findings of their qualitative analysis.
- 07/13/2010
Relatively little research has been done, to date, to understand how domestic violence is expressed among men returning from prison and their female partners. Even less has been done to understand these issues within the context of the African American community, which experiences disproportionately high rates of both incarceration and domestic violence. This report provides a background and overview of these issues.
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Common Justice offers an alternative to the traditional court process for youth charged with felonies such as assault, robbery, and burglary. Project staff bring together people immediately affected by a crime to acknowledge the harm done, address the needs of the harmed party, and agree on sanctions other than incarceration to hold the responsible party accountable. The project, based in Brooklyn, New York, seeks to repair harm, break cycles of violence, and decrease the system’s heavy reliance on incarceration.
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The Los Angeles Jail to Community Reentry Project seeks to inform improvements to reentry services for people returning to the community. This project expands upon the Substance Use and Mental Health Program's work on jail reentry in New York City using empirical data to assess the existing range of reentry interventions, with a particular focus on meeting the needs of L.A.’s racially and ethnically diverse jail population.
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Vera’s Prosecution and Racial Justice Program (PRJ) has partnered with district attorneys in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and San Diego County, California, to pilot an internal assessment and management procedure that is helping supervisors identify evidence of possible racial or ethnic bias in their staff’s aggregate decision making and respond appropriately when it is found. The procedure seeks to buttress the integrity of judicial outcomes and build public confidence in the criminal justice process.
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Jurisdictions across the nation are facing the seemingly intractable phenomenon of the overrepresentation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system, known in the social scientific literature and policymaking circles as disproportionate minority contact (DMC). Research has identified several f...
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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Christopher Wildeman is an assistant professor of sociology at Yale University whose work focuses primarily on parental incarceration. In a new report, Vera describes an agenda for family-focused justice reform. One core component of the report is the corrosive eff...
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Editor's Note: Guest blogger Douglas A. Berman is an editor of Federal Sentencing Reporter and a professor of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He is author of the Sentencing Law and Policy blog. Last summer, Congress finally scaled back the (in)famously harsh mandatory-mi...
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