How Illinois Supreme Court Intervention Can Help Cook County

How Illinois Supreme Court Intervention Can Help Cook County In response to President Preckwinkle’s letter to the Illinois Supreme Court, Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride has answered, proposing a meeting of the major criminal justice stakeholders and a conference of regional and national experts to d...
October 4, 2013

How Locking Up Adolescents Contributes to Crime

In June, Anna Aizer and Joseph Doyle, in conjuction with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts released a working paper on rates of incarceration for juvenile offenders and how they correlate with future criminal acts: Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital And Future C...
July 25, 2013

National Snapshot of Innovation and Failure in Criminal Justice Reform

On July 10, the Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the U.S. Department of Justice released the study, Innovation In the Criminal Justice System: A National Survey of Criminal Justice Leaders. This study is a multi-faceted inquiry into the state of cr...
July 19, 2013