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Ny Crime Victims Legal Help's Victim Compensation Tool: Development Of A Research-Informed Resource, Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany
Ny Crime Victims Legal Help's Victim Compensation Tool: Development Of A Research-Informed Resource, Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany
Criminal & Juvenile Justice Services Reports and Research Briefs
Founded by the Center for Human Services Research, Empire Justice Center, Pro Bono Net, and the New York State Office of Victim Services, the New York Crime Victims Legal Network (CVLN) is a partnership of organizations designed to connect victims of crime with civil legal (non-criminal) information, resources, and assistance through its website, NY Crime Victims Legal Help (the website). The site includes information and self-help resources pertaining to victims’ rights, finding an attorney, accessing legal forms, and filing for victim compensation. This work was initially supported by federal funds; since 2020, it has been funded by the New York …
A Call To Dismantle Systemic Racism In Criminal Legal Systems, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Margaret C. Stevenson
A Call To Dismantle Systemic Racism In Criminal Legal Systems, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Margaret C. Stevenson
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Objectives: In October 2021, APA passed a resolution addressing ways psychologists could work to dismantle systemic racism in criminal legal systems. The present report, developed to inform APA’s policy resolution, details the scope of the problem and offers recommendations for policy and psychologists to address the issue by advancing related science and practice. Specifically, it acknowledges the roots of modern-day racial and ethnic disparities in rates of criminalization and punishment for people of color as compared to White people. Next, the report reviews existing theory and research that helps explain the underlying psychological mechanisms driving racial and ethnic disparities …
Towards A Psychological Science Of Abolition Democracy: Insights For Improving Theory And Research On Race And Public Safety, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Phillip Atiba Goff
Towards A Psychological Science Of Abolition Democracy: Insights For Improving Theory And Research On Race And Public Safety, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Phillip Atiba Goff
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that Du Bois (1935) articulated as the need to dissolve slavery while simultaneously taking affirmative steps to rid its toxic consequences from the body politic. Because the legacies of slavery continue to produce disparities in public safety in the U.S, both harming Black people and the institutions that could keep them safe, psychologists must take seriously questions of history and structure in addition to immediate situations. In the present article, we consider the state of knowledge regarding psychological processes …