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Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

HKS Program Criminal Justice Policy and Management

Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management brings you a series of in-depth conversations with the people on the front lines reforming the criminal legal syste...

Episodes

20 of 55 episodes

Women Coming Home from Prison with Stacey Borden

Stacey Borden is the Founder and Executive Director of New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc., which provides services to women coming home f...

00:45:18Apr 18, 2022

Violence & Restorative Justice with Danielle Sered

Danielle Sered is the author of Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair. The book is based on her work as the fo...

00:49:21Apr 1, 2022

Law of Human Trafficking with Julie Dahlstrom

Human trafficking happens here in the United States. More needs to be done to prevent and address it. At the same time, the law of human tra...

00:45:08Mar 2, 2022

A Wrong Turn: How the Law of Cars Expanded Police Power with Sarah Seo

Sarah Seo is the author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. She explains how traffic enforcement fundamentally...

00:42:14Jan 24, 2022

The Birth Lottery of History with Robert Sampson

People with similar demographics, individual characteristics, and family and economic backgrounds have substantially different chances of ge...

00:23:05Dec 9, 2021

Attorney-Client Relationship as Locus of Inequality w/ Matthew Clair

Matthew Clair is the author of Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. In the book, he uncovers how privilege...

00:38:04Sep 27, 2021

The Criminal Injustice System with Alec Karakatsanis

Alec Karakatsanis is the author of Usual Cruelty: the Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System and the founder of Civil Rights...

00:51:21Aug 12, 2021

The Corporate Enforcement Gap with Jenny Montoya Tansey

A national study commissioned by Public Rights Project revealed a massive enforcement gap in corporate abuse--with 54% of those surveyed say...

00:27:39Jun 28, 2021

The CAHOOTS Model

Most agree that the police are asked to do far too much, including tasks that they are not trained to do and so are ill-equipped to do well....

00:27:15Jun 1, 2021

Progressive Probation with Wendy Still

Wendy Still has achieved remarkable reductions in the probation population while serving as Chief Probation Officer of San Francisco and Ala...

00:30:19Apr 26, 2021

The Anti Police-Terror Project with Cat Brooks

We're back...with some updates and some new voices. Professor Sandra Susan Smith interviews Cat Brooks, founder of the Anti Police-Terror Pr...

00:36:44Mar 29, 2021

Popular Demand: Big Data Policing with Andrew Ferguson

While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...

00:40:50Jul 9, 2020

Popular Demand: Public Defenders with Jonathan Rapping

While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...

00:38:16Jul 9, 2020

Popular Demand: Restorative Justice with Fania Davis

While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...

00:45:13Jul 9, 2020

Popular Demand: The Psychological Traumas of Leaving Prison with Wesley Caines

While we're on hiatus, we're replaying some of our most popular tracks to help people meet this moment of renewed interest in changing the c...

00:34:43Jul 9, 2020

Mental Illness & the Criminal System with Alisa Roth

We discuss mental illness and the criminal system with Alisa Roth, author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.

00:48:04Oct 24, 2019

Punishment Without Crime with Alexandra Natapoff

Alexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes Ameri...

00:48:22Jun 28, 2019

We Are All Criminals with Emily Baxter

Emily Baxter is the founder of We Are All Criminals. In this episode, we examine the ways in which privilege serves to define criminality. Y...

00:33:10May 14, 2019

The Biggest Book Ban in America with James Tager and Robert Pollock

Prison officials regularly block access to huge amounts of reading material for incarcerated people—and they do it in troublingly arbitrary...

00:41:57Apr 15, 2019

Civil Litigation & Criminal Justice Reform with Anand Swaminathan

This week we talk to Anand Swaminathan, an attorney at Loevy and Loevy—a national firm that does civil rights work adjacent to the criminal...

00:42:45Mar 19, 2019