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Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Criminal Courts
 
Sandra Susan Smith, Amisha Kambath, Noor Toraif
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role that police and policing play in the…
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Sandra Susan Smith
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role that police and policing play in the…
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Sandra Susan Smith
Vol. 86, Issue 3, Pages 11-18
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of confidence in the ability to succeed in…
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Sandra Susan Smith
vlog Working Paper No. RWP22-014
In the year following Humphrey, a judicial decision mandating that judges consider both defendants' ability to pay cash bail and non-monetary release options, San Francisco…
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Sandra Susan Smith
As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the relationship between such reforms and crime,…
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Sandra Susan Smith
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB). These policies require employers to remove conviction and arrest…
Sandra Susan Smith and Izzy Jorgensen
 
Sandra Susan Smith
vlog Working Paper No. RWP21-033
This report discusses cash bail reforms that have occurred in the United States and provides key considerations for people interested in implementing bail reforms in their…
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Sandra Susan Smith
The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release. Often overlooked, the decisions made…
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Sandra Susan Smith
Detaining many to avoid the dangers posed by a few is not only inexcusably unjust, it actually increases the likelihood of the very dangers many fear.