New CCJ Members

Nora Demleitner
Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr. Professor of Law
Washington and Lee University
David Harris
Sally Ann Semenko Endowed Chair and Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Tim Hegarty
Chief Investigator
Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu
Hugh Hurwitz
President
HJH Advisors, LLC
Evie Litwok
Executive Director
Witness to Mass Incarceration Inc.
Roberta Meyers Douglas
Vice President of State Strategy & Reentry
Legal Action Center
Sharone Mitchell
Public Defender of Cook County
Cook County Public Defender’s Office
Kevin Sabet
President
Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM)
John Valverde
President and CEO
YouthBuild USA
Troy Vaughn
Co-Founder and Executive
Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership
David Velazquez
Director, Education Business Coalitions, Smart Justice
UNITE-LA/Association of Chamber Executives
Dr. Marsha Weissman
Adjunct Professor
Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Brie Williams
Professor of Medicine and Director
University of California San Francisco and Amend

Recent Posts

UpClose With Matthew Cavedon

This month’s spotlighted member is Matthew Cavedon, director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute.

Event Recording: What’s Driving the Homicide Decline?

In this webinar, CCJ discussed a summary of the key takeaways and hosted a conversation with four of the participants about the explanations they found most plausible, what shaped those judgments, and what the findings suggest for sustaining progress.

Leading Scholars Identify Likely Drivers of the Historic U.S. Homicide Decline

No dominant explanation emerges from two-day CCJ summit; more than half of possible explanations drew little support