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Mona Lynch
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Lynch will write a book on how ongoing changes in federal drug sentencing laws play out at the court level. She will examine how entrenched norms, practices, and incentives within federal courts present formidable barriers to efforts aimed at reducing the racial imbalances in drug sentencing.
Mona Lynch
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Researcher
Mona Lynch will draw on video-recorded deliberations data from two large-scale mock jury studies that test how the race of defendants and individual jurors and jury group racial characteristics interact in predicting verdicts in a drug conspiracy case. Both studies resulted in an unexpected finding: mock jurors became significantly less supportive of a guilty verdict for a Black defendant charged in a federal drug conspiracy case, relative to a white defendant, after small group deliberations.
Tracey Meares
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Meares (together with Benjamin Justice) will co-author a book on how experiences with criminal legal institutions shape one’s civic identity. Drawing on scholarship from law, history, and the social sciences, they will examine how legally innocent people encounter three phases of the “curriculum” of American justice: policing, pretrial detention, and adjudication.
Edward Patrick Mulvey
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Mulvey will continue his work on the Pathways to Desistance study, which follows a large sample of juvenile offenders from adolescence to young adulthood. Using interviews with the offenders and their friends and family, this project compares the effects of sanctions and interventions in promoting positive changes among serious adolescent offenders.