Archived Research

  • Funding Sources Toolkit

    Compiled by Meg Duffy, with research assistance and graphic design by Jacqueline Lantsman At the

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  • Abolitionist Principles & Campaign Strategies for Prosecutor Organizing

    The organizations that came together to develop this framework were Community Justice Exchange, CourtWatch MA,

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  • Rhetoric, Not Reform: Prosecutors & Pretrial Practices in Suffolk, Middlesex, and Berkshire Counties

    On October 3, 2019, we released a groundbreaking report with Families for Justice as Healing

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  • Disabling Punishment

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  • Independent Lens: Toward Transparency, Accountability, and Effectiveness in Police Tactics

    Since the 1980s, many police departments have operated according to the notion of community policing

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  • The High Cost of ‘Free’ Photo Voter Identification Cards

    by Richard Sobel June 2014 Obtaining a “free” voter identification card can typically cost an

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  • Adjusting Our Focus: Current Communication Practices and Patterns in the Criminal Justice Sector

    HOUSTON INSTITUTE AND FRAMEWORKS INC. RELEASE FIELD FRAME ANALYSIS MAPPING COMMUNICATION PATTERNS AMONG INFLUENTIAL CRIMINAL

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  • Things I Have Seen and Heard: How Educators, Youth Workers and Elected Leaders Can Help Reduce the Damage of Childhood Exposure to Violence in Communities

    Candice Player and Susan Eaton Even as violent crime declines across the nation, children who

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  • Federal Support for School Integration: A Status Report

    This brief reviews existing federal policy related to education and civil rights and assesses current

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  • We the People: Race, Ethnicity and Citizenship in the United States 150 Years After Dred Scott v. Sandford

    This report surveys the most current data available to assess the state of citizenship in

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