Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

About Us

The Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government aims to enable governments to fulfill their obligations to ensure public safety and justice. We do this through research, teaching and curriculum development, and maintaining long-lasting partnerships with practitioners and other scholars. We also organize executive sessions--intensive conversations among leading practitioners and scholars in a specific field that span several years, punctuated by research, practical experimentation, and collaborative publications.

Current Projects

Seminar on Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure Reform in China
October 5-7, 2008

Executive Session for State Court Leaders in the 21st Century

Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety

Executive Session on Human Rights Commissions and Criminal Justice

Justice Systems Workshop

Workshop on Indicators of Safety and Justice
March 13-15, 2008--Harvard Kennedy School

Justified Confidence in Police Index

Updated List of Fall 2008 Events

Recent Publications

Solís, Luis Guillermo and Todd Foglesong. "El crimen organizado y su impacto en las sociedades democraticás: Reflexiones sobre México, Centroamérica y la República Dominicana (Organized Crime and Its Impact on Democratic Societies: Refections on Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Republic)" in Crimen organizado en América Latina y el Caribe. Luis Guillermo Solís and Francisco Rojas Aravena, editors. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLASCO), 2008.

Braga, Anthony A. and Brenda J. Bond. "Policing Crime and Disorder Hot Spots: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Criminology 46 no. 3 (August 2008).

Braga, Anthony A. "Pulling Levers Focused Deterrence Strategies and the Prevention of Gun Homicide." Journal of Criminal Justice 36 no. 4 (August 2008).

Foglesong, Todd. "Supervisión legislativa y judicial en un sistema de responsabilización policial: Debilidades estructurales y nuevas oportunidades (Legislative and Judicial Oversight in a System of Police Accountability: Structural Weaknesses and New Opportunities)" in Responsabilidad policial en democracia. Una propuesta para América Latina. Ernesto López Portillo Vargas and Hugo Frühling E., editors. Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia, 2008.

Braga, Anthony A. Problem-Oriented Policing and Crime Prevention (2nd ed.). Criminal Justice Press, 2008.

Sparrow, Malcolm. The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The Program in Criminal Justice takes a sector-wide view of criminal justice, focusing on the policies and management of multiple institutions whose work contributes to safety and justice, rather than specializing on issues of policing, courts, or corrections. By examining multiple institutions at once, the program takes a broad view of several issues that affect the entire justice and safety sector, such as transparency, legitimacy, protection of human rights, and cost-effectiveness.

The Program also takes an international, comparative approach to questions of safety and justice. This includes research to expand the range of empirical indicators available to facilitate comparisons among countries, particularly comparisons that cut across legal traditions and levels of economic development.

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