This member video spotlights Beau Kilmer, Director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. In this interview, Kilmer discusses how he landed at RAND, what issues the center is addressing now, and how the U.S. should address the explosion of fentanyl misuse, which contributed to the nation’s record-high 107,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021.
This month’s spotlighted member is Elizabeth Glazer, founder of Vital City.
As part of Second Chance Month activities, the Council on Criminal Justice’s Centering Justice initiative and a panel of experts examined how second chance policies are working in practice, what drives success and failure, and what it will take to sustain progress over time.
Using data from the Gallup Social Survey, this report examines how factors beyond crime itself, such as neighborhood characteristics, feelings of financial optimism, and political ideology, may influence perceptions and fear of crime.
