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June 2, 2025
Timely justice: How case screening improves efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness
Published by Justice Innovation Lab
Explore results from the first randomized controlled trial regarding intake processes in a local prosecutor’s office in the United States. Evidence from the study demonstrates that quickly reviewing low-level cases and removing those that lack legal sufficiency can significantly reduce the negative impacts of the criminal justice system, give victims quicker resolution to cases, save valuable taxpayer dollars, and even improve public safety.
Jared Fishman on Policing, Reform, and Fragile Institutions
Published by Vanguard News Group
Prosecutors pitch criminal justice reforms 'Shark Tank' style at Vanderbilt Law School
Published by The Tennessean
Fire on the Levee: What Katrina Taught Us About Criminal Justice Reform
Published by Vanderbilt Political Review
‘Who do you want to be?’ The question that led a former prosecutor to seek a fairer system
Published by The Parthenon
2024 Year-in-Review: SIX transformative accomplishments you helped make possible
Published by Justice Innovation Lab
Prosecutors in the Passing Lane: Racial Disparities, Public Safety, and Prosecutorial Declinations of Pretextual Stops
Published by San Diego Law Review.