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The exclusionary rule, which bans the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials, has been strongly asserted by the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly a century in order to make sure that police officers don’t disregard individuals’ rights while conducting an investigation. But recently...
The ability to hire street workers with criminal backgrounds will hopefully bring a new and exciting energy to the street worker program. In the 1990s, after Boston suffered a high of 151 murders in a year, an initiative similar to StreetSafe Boston was able to achieve a glorious reduction in...
That said, Harvard’s contribution has been a study out of the Kennedy School of Government providing the statistical basis for StreetSafe Boston. Of course, this is an important contribution, and on top of that, experts from our Sociology Department and the Kennedy School’s Criminal...
We can look to changes in criminal law over the past decades to explain how we achieved this unprecedented rate. Drug crimes account for much of the increase in prison populations. In 12 years, the prison population with drug convictions leapt from 6% in 1979 to 25% in 1991 at...
Mass incarceration is not making us safer, but less so. It is nearly impossible for people with criminal records to get jobs, so they often return to crime in order to support themselves and their families. Sixty percent of former offenders recidivate (commit another crime) within 3 years of their...