Best Hks Program In Criminal Justice Policy Podcasts (2024)

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Women Coming Home from Prison with Stacey Borden 45:18

2+ y ago45:18

45:18

Stacey Borden is the Founder and Executive Director of New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc., which provides services to women coming home from prison. She talks about the unique experiences of women in prison and the challenges they face coming home.By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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Violence & Restorative Justice with Danielle Sered 49:21

2+ y ago49:21

49:21

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 founder and Director of Common Justice, an alternative-to-incarceration and victim-service program that focuses on violent felonies. We discuss violence, restorative justice, and the abject failure of the crimina…

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Law of Human Trafficking with Julie Dahlstrom 45:08

2+ y ago45:08

45:08

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 trafficking, although young, is actually quite robust. And it’s being applied in novel, complex, and (some would say) questionable ways. Julie Dahlstrom, Director of BU Law’s Immigrants’ Rights & Human Trafficking…

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A Wrong Turn: How the Law of Cars Expanded Police Power with Sarah Seo 42:14

3y ago42:14

42:14

Sarah Seo is the author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. She explains how traffic enforcement fundamentally changed Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in the 20th century. Namely, it vastly expanded police discretion, creating the law enforcement regime that has presided over numerous high profile killings of unarmed bl…

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The Birth Lottery of History with Robert Sampson 23:05

3y ago23:05

23:05

People with similar demographics, individual characteristics, and family and economic backgrounds have substantially different chances of getting arrested depending on the years during which they were 17 to 23 years old. Professor Robert Sampson outlines a groundbreaking new study showing the way that historical context predicts arrest rates.…

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Attorney-Client Relationship as Locus of Inequality w/ Matthew Clair 38:04

3y ago38:04

38:04

Matthew Clair is the author of Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. In the book, he uncovers how privilege and inequality play out in criminal court interactions, especially in the attorney-client relationship. In this conversation, we explore the attorney-client relationship in greater detail and the ways that it …

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The Criminal Injustice System with Alec Karakatsanis 51:21

3y ago51:21

51:21

Alec Karakatsanis is the author of Usual Cruelty: the Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System and the founder of Civil Rights Corps. We discuss why he calls it the criminal injustice system and the dangers of criminal justice "reform."By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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The Corporate Enforcement Gap with Jenny Montoya Tansey 27:39

3+ y ago27:39

27:39

A national study commissioned by Public Rights Project revealed a massive enforcement gap in corporate abuse--with 54% of those surveyed saying they have experienced wage theft, predatory lending and debt collection, corporate pollution, and/or unsafe rental conditions at least once in the past 10 years. The criminal legal system could intervene. H…

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The CAHOOTS Model 27:15

3+ y ago27:15

27:15

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. The CAHOOTS model is an exciting one. It relieves the police from undertaking tasks for which they are ill-equipped, especially those related to mental health crises, it does so effectively and without force/v…

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Progressive Probation with Wendy Still 30:19

3+ y ago30:19

30:19

Wendy Still has achieved remarkable reductions in the probation population while serving as Chief Probation Officer of San Francisco and Alameda Counties, California. She discusses what progressive probation looks like, including in the context of the defund movement, as well as her experiences during her long career.…

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The Anti Police-Terror Project with Cat Brooks 36:44

3+ y ago36:44

36:44

We're back...with some updates and some new voices. Professor Sandra Susan Smith interviews Cat Brooks, founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, about policing and reimagining community safety.By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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Popular Demand: Big Data Policing with Andrew Ferguson 40:50

4+ y ago40:50

40:50

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 criminal legal system.The use of big data in the criminal legal system raises some thorny legal, cultural, and ethical questions. What level of surveillance are we willing to tolerate? Is data actually objective…

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Popular Demand: Public Defenders with Jonathan Rapping 38:16

4+ y ago38:16

38:16

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 criminal legal system.Jonathan Rapping is the founder of Gideon's Promise, an organization dedicated to changing the culture of public defense. He'll describe why the work of public defenders is important, what …

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Popular Demand: Restorative Justice with Fania Davis 45:13

4+ y ago45:13

45:13

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 criminal legal system.Restorative justice is a paradigm-shifting approach to criminal justice. Fania Davis is a long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice scholar and professor, and a civil rights …

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Popular Demand: The Psychological Traumas of Leaving Prison with Wesley Caines 34:43

4+ y ago34:43

34:43

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 criminal legal system.Within three years of release, about two-thirds of people released from prison are rearrested. Wesley Caines, the Reentry and Community Outreach Coordinator at the Bronx Defenders, tells us…

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Mental Illness & the Criminal System with Alisa Roth 48:04

5y ago48:04

48:04

We discuss mental illness and the criminal system with Alisa Roth, author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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Punishment Without Crime with Alexandra Natapoff 48:22

5+ y ago48:22

48:22

Alexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal. This book is absolutely essential for understanding the criminal system in America. We discuss the misdemeanor system’s role as a system of social control, revenue generation, racial oppression…

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We Are All Criminals with Emily Baxter 33:10

5+ y ago33:10

33:10

Emily Baxter is the founder of We Are All Criminals. In this episode, we examine the ways in which privilege serves to define criminality. You can see more about the project at https://www.weareallcriminals.org/By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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The Biggest Book Ban in America with James Tager and Robert Pollock 41:57

5+ y ago41:57

41:57

Prison officials regularly block access to huge amounts of reading material for incarcerated people—and they do it in troublingly arbitrary ways. We discuss the written word’s ability to highlight and amplify the humanity of people in prison and the power of information. James Tager is the Deputy Director of Free Expression Research at PEN America …

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Civil Litigation & Criminal Justice Reform with Anand Swaminathan 42:45

5+ y ago42:45

42:45

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 legal system. We discuss the role of civil litigators in changing the criminal legal system.By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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Is Holistic Defense More Effective with Maya Buenaventura 23:14

5+ y ago23:14

23:14

Holistic defenders in the Bronx saved their clients 1.1 million days of incarceration and saved taxpayers $165 million on housing costs alone, relative to the traditional public defenders practicing in the same court house. This week, we talk to Maya Buenaventura of the Rand Corporation about the Rand Corporation’s study of the holistic defense mod…

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People in Prison Are Getting Older with Darnell and Darryl Epps 29:45

5+ y ago29:45

29:45

By 2030, 1 in 3 people in prison will be 55 or older. We’ll discuss reform to address this trend and what the response to this trend tells us about the role of rehabilitation in the system.Darryl & Darnell Epps are brothers. Darnell is a student at Cornell who works for the Center on the Death Penalty. He recently published an op-ed in the NY Times…

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Who Counts as a Victim with Alysia Santo 21:28

6y ago21:28

21:28

States provide money to people who have been victims of crime to reimburse them for the costs of their victimization—things like therapy, funerals, etc. But Alysia Santo, an investigative reporter for the Marshall Project, finds that only some people count as victims.By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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The Injustice of Sex Offense Registries with Emily Horowitz 36:21

6y ago36:21

36:21

We discuss the need to abolish sex offense registries with Emily Horowitz, a professor of sociology & criminal justice and the author of Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws Are Failing Us Opens a New Window.By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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Police Violence against Women of Color with Andrea Ritchie 36:29

6y ago36:29

36:29

Andrea Ritchie is an attorney, organizer, and author of Invisible No More, a recent book about how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement .By HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Hks Program In Criminal Justice Policy Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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

HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

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Women Coming Home from Prison with Stacey Borden 45:18

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Violence & Restorative Justice with Danielle Sered 49:21

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Law of Human Trafficking with Julie Dahlstrom 45:08

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A Wrong Turn: How the Law of Cars Expanded Police Power with Sarah Seo 42:14

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The Birth Lottery of History with Robert Sampson 23:05

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Attorney-Client Relationship as Locus of Inequality w/ Matthew Clair 38:04

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The Criminal Injustice System with Alec Karakatsanis 51:21

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The Corporate Enforcement Gap with Jenny Montoya Tansey 27:39

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The CAHOOTS Model 27:15

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Progressive Probation with Wendy Still 30:19

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The Anti Police-Terror Project with Cat Brooks 36:44

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Popular Demand: Big Data Policing with Andrew Ferguson 40:50

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Popular Demand: Public Defenders with Jonathan Rapping 38:16

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Popular Demand: Restorative Justice with Fania Davis 45:13

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Popular Demand: The Psychological Traumas of Leaving Prison with Wesley Caines 34:43

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Mental Illness & the Criminal System with Alisa Roth 48:04

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Punishment Without Crime with Alexandra Natapoff 48:22

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We Are All Criminals with Emily Baxter 33:10

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The Biggest Book Ban in America with James Tager and Robert Pollock 41:57

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Civil Litigation & Criminal Justice Reform with Anand Swaminathan 42:45

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Is Holistic Defense More Effective with Maya Buenaventura 23:14

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People in Prison Are Getting Older with Darnell and Darryl Epps 29:45

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Who Counts as a Victim with Alysia Santo 21:28

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The Injustice of Sex Offense Registries with Emily Horowitz 36:21

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Police Violence against Women of Color with Andrea Ritchie 36:29

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