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Baltimore expands anti-gun-violence strategy into Eastern District
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Baltimore expands anti-gun-violence strategy into Eastern District

An analysis released by the Crime and Justice Policy Lab at the School of Arts & Sciences suggests that a group violence reduction strategy drove a 2022 drop in shootings in Baltimore’s Western District.

Penn Carey Law’s Paul H. Robinson’s book explores criminal law and societal values
Paul Robinson.

“Criminal law earns its moral authority by publicly committing itself to doing justice above all else,” says Paul H. Robinson.

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Penn Carey Law’s Paul H. Robinson’s book explores criminal law and societal values

The Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s new book is titled “American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles, and Evolution.”

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How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements
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How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements

Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements.

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How Penn researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore
Press conference in Baltimore.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a press conference on results from its Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which University of Pennsylvania researchers helped implement and analyze, and next steps.

(Image: Courtesy of Jack French/Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement)

How Penn researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore

The Crime and Justice Policy Lab has seen encouraging results from its work implementing a Group Violence Reduction Strategy in part of the city.
‘False positive’ field drug tests lead to wrongful convictions
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‘False positive’ field drug tests lead to wrongful convictions

A new Quattrone Center report shows that the use of presumptive field tests in drug arrests is one of the largest known contributing factors to wrongful arrests and convictions.

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Too many Philly police are no-shows in court, derailing cases and undermining our justice system
Philadelphia Inquirer

Too many Philly police are no-shows in court, derailing cases and undermining our justice system

Research by Sandra Mayson of Penn Carey Law, Aurelie Ouss of the School of Arts & Sciences, and doctoral candidate Linsday Graef finds that Philadelphia police officers failed to appear in 31% of cases for which they were subpoenaed between 2010 and 2020.