Congratulations to Professor David Harding on his receipt of the 2024-2025 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity! Harding, who chairs the Department of Sociology, has been instrumental in developing mentorship programs for formerly incarcerated scholars and trains early-career researchers in computational social science methods. Learn more about the award recipients.
Amy Lerman on "Clean Slate" Justice Laws
In a new piece for WIRED, Amy Lerman weighs in on ‘clean slate’ laws – which keep criminal records from being publicly available – as policies to reduce discrimination against the formerly incarcerated. While these laws have bipartisan support, Lerman’s research demonstrates that “automating record clearance alone is not going to be sufficient to reduce racial disparities in who has a criminal record.” Read more here.