Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
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Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Voir Dire is an interview-based podcast about criminal justice reform. Sometimes, we share the conversations taking place on Harvard’s campus; other times, we start conversations outside of those small classrooms. Working or living in the criminal legal system can habituate you to the cruelty and wa...
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55 ክፍሎችWomen 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 from priso...
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 founder and...
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 trafficking,...
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 changed F...
The Birth Lottery of History with Robert Sampson
People with similar demographics, individual characteristics, and family and economic backgrounds have substantially different chances of getting arre...
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 and inequ...
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 Corps. We...
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 saying they h...
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. The CAHOO...
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 Alameda Count...
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 Project, abo...
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 criminal le...
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 criminal le...
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 criminal le...
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 criminal le...
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.
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 America More Un...
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. You can see...
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 ways. We d...
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 legal syst...
Is Holistic Defense More Effective with Maya Buenaventura
Holistic defenders in the Bronx saved their clients 1.1 million days of incarceration and saved taxpayers $165 million on housing costs alone, relativ...
People in Prison Are Getting Older with Darnell and Darryl Epps
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 th...
Who Counts as a Victim with Alysia Santo
States provide money to people who have been victims of crime to reimburse them for the costs of their victimization—things like therapy, funerals, et...
The Injustice of Sex Offense Registries with Emily Horowitz
We discuss the need to abolish sex offense registries with Emily Horowitz, a professor of sociology & criminal justice and the author of Protecting Ou...
Police Violence against Women of Color with Andrea Ritchie
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 e...
What a Difference a DA Makes with Rahsaan Hall
Rahsaan Hall is the Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts’s What A Difference a DA Makes Campaign. We discuss progressive prosecution and the ACLU’s c...
The Trial Penalty with Norman Reimer & Elisa Klein
Trials are supposed to be a fundamental constitutional right. But in today’s criminal legal system, only 3% of federal cases are resolved at trial. I...
Transforming Juvenile Probation with Steve Bishop
383,000 young people were placed on formal or informal probation supervision in 2014. Stephen Bishop, of the Annie E Casey Foundation, thinks that sup...
Legalizing Cannabis with Shaleen Title
The criminalization of cannabis was a foundational pillar of the New Jim Crow. Now, the decriminalization of cannabis might just make a small number o...
Holistic Defense @ Arch City Defenders with Blake Strode
Arch City Defenders advocates for poor people and people of color who are exploited by the municipal court system in St. Louis. Its Director, Blake St...
Paying to Avoid a Shoplifting Charge with John Rappaport
People caught shoplifting can pay $400-$500 to a private company in return for a promise not to call the police and a "restorative justice" class. Wha...
A Progressive DA Campaign w/ Boston Candidate Shannon McAuliffe
Boston's Sept. 4 District Attorney elections for have the potential to change the criminal legal system in Boston and be a model for progressive chang...
Student Scholarship: Solitary Confinement w/ Mental Illness + Cause Lawyer Civil Disobedience
This is the second episode in which we feature student scholarship coming out of HLS. We interview Andrew Hanna about a recent Third Circuit case that...
Student Scholarship--Bail & the Cost/Benefit of Incarceration
We reached out to all the criminal law professors at HLS and asked what student scholarship had really wowed them in the past year. In these special e...
Restorative Justice with Fania Davis
Restorative justice is a paradigm-shifting approach to criminal justice. Fania Davis is a long-time social justice activist, a restorative justice sch...
The Decline of the Death Penalty with Brandon Garrett
Brandon Garrett discusses the precipitous decline in death penalty sentences and executions and his new book, End of its Rope: How Killing the Death P...
Bonus: Human Trafficking with Donna Hubbard
Pastor Donna Hubbard works with women who have been trafficked at her organization, the Women at the Well Transition Center, and helps train airline a...
Life Sentence on the Outside with Donna Hubbard and Carl Route
Carl Route describes life after prison as “the life sentence on the outside.” We explore the difficulties of life after prison with activists and ref...
Juvenile Justice with Nila Bala and Jesse Kelley
Nila Bala & Jesse Kelley of the R Street Institute help us understand the juvenile justice system and talk about their work to reform the system.
Bonus: The Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform w/ Nila Bala & Jesse Kelley
Nila Balan & Jesse Kelley of the free market think tank, the R Street Institute, talk about a conservative perspective on criminal justice reform.