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Protecting Rights and Accessing Justice

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ABF researchers produce cutting-edge research on the persistent access to justice gap, identifying the key factors that create and exacerbate the access to justice gap while also uncovering ways to address that gap.

Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Paternal Imprisonment, Investment in Families and Schools, and Child Educational Inequality
Consent to Sex on Campus: How Undergraduates Understand and Enact Sexual Consent in the Title IX Era
Contested Constructions of Discrimination
World Justice Project
Employment Civil Rights
The Hero and the Monsignor: Law, Sexual Violence, and the Catholic Church
Regulating the Crisis: An Exploratory Study of Landlord Responses to Pandemic-Era Tenant Protection Regulations
Public Opinion, Private Governance, and the Influence of Source Credibility
Science and the Legal System
Alternative Legal Professionals
Policing and Political Participation
Constructing Feminized Courts and Carceral Institutions: Gender, the Legal Regulation of Race, and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice

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The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility

Spring 2016
Robert L. Nelson
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The End of an Era? Understanding the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform

March 2016
Katherine Beckett, Anna Reosti and Emily Knaphus
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The Fellows CLE Seminar: Communities in Crisis: The Effects of Immigration Law and Politics on American Communities

Spring 2015
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The Fellows CLE Seminar: Perspectives on Race, Communities and Policing in 21st Century America

Spring 2015
Tracey Meares
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Tenant Screening in an Era of Mass Incarceration: A Criminal Record is No Crystal Ball

March 2015
Anna Reosti and Merf Ehman
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We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution Process

Winter 2015
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Accessing Justice in the Contemporary USA: Findings from the Community Needs and Services Study

Fall 2014
Rebecca Sandefur
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Devolving the Carceral State: Race, Prisoner Reentry, and the Micro-Politics of Urban Poverty Management

July 2014
Reuben Jonathan Miller
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The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

May 2014
Abhay Aneja, John Donohue III and Alexandria Zhang
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Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Winter 2014
Traci Burch
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Aberrant Sexualities and Racialized Masculinization: Race, Gender and the Criminalization of African American Girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva, 1893–1945

July 2013
Tera Agyepong
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In the Belly of the Beast: Black Policemen Combat Police Brutality in Chicago, 1968-1983

Spring January 2013
Tera Agyepong
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