Journal Articles
America 101
How we let civic education slide—and why we need a crash course in the Constitution today.
Authored by: Eric Lane
– 10/01/08
Seeing Double Voting: An Extension of the Birthday Problem
We review and extend the Birthday Problem to find the probability that two persons in a given group share an exact birthdate and, in a related calculation, the expected number of matching birthdates in a group of a certain size.
Authored by: Michael P. McDonald and Justin Levitt
– 04/01/08
What Albany Could Learn from New York City
A model for meaningful campaign finance reform in action.
Authored by: Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
– 02/04/08
Out of the Courtroom and into the Neighborhood
Public defenders embrace community defenders. They have begun to embrace more community-orientated forms of advocacy that push a defender’s skill beyond the courtroom and the individual case.
Authored by: Kirsten D. Levingston
– 10/01/07
Building Freedom Conference Agenda
– 09/07/07
Women in the Criminal Justice System
Women are being charged with crimes, convicted, and sentenced to prison at a much higher rate than just 20 years ago. The authors explore and analyze this disturbing trend.
Authored by: Kirsten D. Levingston with Kayla Gassmann
– 09/01/07
Debtors’ Prison
Prisoner’s accumulation of debt as a barrier to reentry.
Authored by: Kirsten D. Levingston & Vicki Turetsky