
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).
Recent Highlights
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News & Views from Robina
Homegrown Sympathizers and “Wannabe” Terrorists: Prevention, Just Deserts, and the War on Terror
July 13, 2016
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Publication
Sentencing Fragments
January 15, 2016
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News
Robina Co-Director Richard Frase and UMN Law Prof. Michael Tonry Cited in Atlantic Article “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
September 24, 2015
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Conference Video
Race Crime Punishment and Local Democracy
December 9, 2013
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Publication
Crime and Justice in America, 1975-2025
October 29, 2013
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Publication
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration
October 29, 2013
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Event
Collateral Sanctions on Ex-Offenders
October 29, 2012
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Publication
Crime and Justice, Volume 41: Prosecutors and Politics, A Comparative Perspective
October 1, 2012
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Conference Video
Drugs
September 12, 2012
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Conference Video
American Youth Violence
September 11, 2012
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Event
Crime and Justice in America, 1975-2025
September 10, 2012
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Conference Video
Deterrent Effects of Sanctions
August 29, 2012