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Rethinking Criminal Justice

Research has found that criminal mediation leads to greater victim satisfaction and lower recidivism.

BY Marc Levin

Blog Post

06.26.2016
Criminal Law and Justice

Is Violence a Function of our Culture?

Featuring New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic, who has written widely on matters of race, policing, and American history.

BY Aspen Ideas to go

Podcast

06.22.2016
Criminal Law and Justice

The Refugee Crisis and the Responsibility of Nations

The plight of Syrian and other refugees fleeing conflicts raging in the Middle East pulls at the conscience of the world, but responses within European receiving nations—and potential receiving nations like the US—have been uneven, punctuated by fear and nativism.

BY Justice and Society Program

Video

02.17.2016
Criminal Law and Justice

Solitary Confinement Through the Eyes of a Former Prisoner

Hear what former prisoner Shaka Senghor, who was incarcerated for 19 years and now directs strategy for the bipartisan initiative #cut50, has to say about President Barack Obama's recent pledge to end solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders.

BY Aspen Ideas To Go

Podcast

02.04.2016
Criminal Law and Justice

On Mass Incarceration, We Have Reached a Tipping Point

The path to prison does not begin the moment a crime is committed. For boys and young men of color, the risk of incarceration exists at nearly every stage of life.

BY Scott Budnick and Shawn Dove, Guest Bloggers

Blog Post

06.02.2015
Criminal Law and Justice

Art and Incarceration

Examine with professionals in the field how the lives of at-risk youth and incarcerated citizens are improved through the teaching and practice of drama.

BY Arts Program

Video

12.04.2014
Criminal Law and Justice

Civil Liberties for the "unpopular" - Justice Ginsburg

2014 AspenX featuring a conversation entitled "Privacy, the Constitution, and Civil Liberties" with the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center.

BY AspenX

Video

11.07.2014
Criminal Law and Justice

Successes and Challenges at the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the world’s only permanent international court with a mandate to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes aga ...

BY Justice and Society Program

Video

04.18.2014
Criminal Law and Justice

Legacy of Abuse

Explores transitional justice, in particular the ways in which a society that has endured gross abuses of human rights can come to terms with the past and move on to become a rights-respecting community.

BY Justice and Society Program

Publication

02.19.2009