Crime and Punishment

Jill Leovy

Fellow in Sociology

Jill Leovy is an independent researcher and nonfiction writer whose interests are violence, personal conflict and dispute resolution. She is the...

Rebecca Bucci

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rebecca Bucci is a Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022) at Harvard University. She recently received her PhD in Criminology at Penn State University. Her...

Dean Knox: ε-sharp Bounds for Partially Observed Causal Processes: Testing for Racial Bias in Policing by Fusing Incomplete Records

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Applied Statistics Workshop presentation by Dean Knox, University of Pennsylvania.

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2020 Dec 02

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

4:30pm to 5:45pm

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Tracie Keesee is the Senior Vice President of Justice Initiatives and Co-Founder of the Center For Policing Equity.

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Community discussion about the implications of election results.

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Sandra Susan Smith, ...

2020 Oct 28

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series: David Garland

4:30pm to 5:45pm

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Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

David Garland is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law at the School of Law and also Professor of Sociology in NYU

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2020 Nov 12

Dustin Duncan: “…I’m afraid of White people”: Anti-Black racism, police violence and the health and well-being of Black sexual minority men

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Social Demography Seminar presentation by Dustin Duncan,...

2020 Oct 21

Barry Friedman: Disaggregating the Police Function

4:30pm to 5:45pm

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Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Politics at New York University

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2020 Sep 23

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series with Ronald Davis

4:30pm to 5:45pm

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Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

Ronald Davis, Former Director of the USDOJ Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office); currently Partner of 21CP Solutions, an organization that seeks to empower...

2020 Sep 17

Roland Neil: Place-based discrimination in policing

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Social Demography Seminar presentation by Roland Neil, Harvard University.

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2020 Nov 06

Sarah Brayne: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Sarah Brayne, University of Texas at Austin. Read more about Sarah Brayne: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Faculty Spotlight: More Than Just Race: Skin Tone and the Criminal Justice System

April 1, 2020

For many decades now social scientists have shown how, in so many ways, one's ethnoracial background is associated with a whole host of important outcomes from educational attainment to labor market outcomes to health. Many studies also provide compelling evidence of ethnoracial disparities in the criminal justice system – the probability of being arrested, incarcerated, and even the length of criminal sentences. ... Read more about Faculty Spotlight: More Than Just Race: Skin Tone and the Criminal Justice System

Legewie awarded 2019 Hans L. Zetterberg Prize

June 3, 2019

Congratulations to Joscha Legewie who was awarded the 2019 Hans L. Zetterberg Prize in Sociology from Sweden’s Uppsala University.... Read more about Legewie awarded 2019 Hans L. Zetterberg Prize

Adaner Usmani

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies

On Leave for the 2021-2022 Academic Year

Research Interests: Inequality, Social Policy, Labor and Social Movements, Crime and Punishment.

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

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640 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Lower crime rates, at what cost?

May 2, 2019

in a new study Joscha Legewie explores the educational and social consequences of aggressive policing in New York City. See the Harvard Gazette article "... Read more about Lower crime rates, at what cost?

2019 Apr 16

Mary Pattillo: Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

3:00pm to 4:30pm

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William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

Department of Sociology - Colloquium Series presentation by Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University.

Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

Abstract:
Who pays for the institutions of the criminal justice...

Department of Sociology

Crime and Punishment

Jill Leovy

Rebecca Bucci

Dean Knox: ε-sharp Bounds for Partially Observed Causal Processes: Testing for Racial Bias in Policing by Fusing Incomplete Records

Location:

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

Location:

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series: David Garland

Location:

Dustin Duncan: “…I’m afraid of White people”: Anti-Black racism, police violence and the health and well-being of Black sexual minority men

Location:

Barry Friedman: Disaggregating the Police Function

Location:

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series with Ronald Davis

Location:

Roland Neil: Place-based discrimination in policing

Location:

Sarah Brayne: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Location:

Faculty Spotlight: More Than Just Race: Skin Tone and the Criminal Justice System

Legewie awarded 2019 Hans L. Zetterberg Prize

Adaner Usmani

Lower crime rates, at what cost?

Mary Pattillo: Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

Location:

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