BRUCE WESTERN AND 'SQUARE ONE' PROJECT FEATURED IN A PIECE IN THE CRIME REPORT
Sociologist Bruce Western was profiled regarding a recent paper he published as part of Square One, a new multi-disciplinary project seeking to address the social and economic framework under which the current justice system operates in the US.
More Social Justice=Better Criminal Justice?
Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and co-director of the Columbia Justice Lab, argues that while the justice reform movement to date has moved many courts, correctional institutions and law enforcement agencies away from the hardline strategies of recent decades, fundamental change requires policymakers to “cut the connections between incarceration, poverty and racial inequality.”
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