Criminal Justice Policy

Criminal Justice Policy research was conducted by Professor Michael Tonry and former Robina Fellow Alessandro Corda. This research and scholarship responded to the growing consensus that America’s criminal justice policies are too expensive, ineffective, and often inhumane. The research in Criminal Justice Policy aimed to contribute to a major rethinking and restructuring of the American criminal justice system, with particular emphasis on reform of sentencing policies and practices that have given the United States the highest imprisonment rate in the world (730 per 100,000 population, compared with an average of 100 in other developed Western countries).