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Protecting Rights and Accessing Justice

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ABF researchers produce cutting-edge research on the persistent access to justice gap, identifying the key factors that create and exacerbate the access to justice gap while also uncovering ways to address that gap.

Modest Proposals? Exploring the Potential of Markets and Technology to Promote Access to Civil Justice
The Least of These: Violence, Freedom, and the Promise of a New World
Alternative Legal Professionals
Consent to Sex on Campus: How Undergraduates Understand and Enact Sexual Consent in the Title IX Era
Constructing Feminized Courts and Carceral Institutions: Gender, the Legal Regulation of Race, and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice
Contested Constructions of Discrimination
Employment Civil Rights
Policing and Political Participation
Public Opinion, Private Governance, and the Influence of Source Credibility
Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Paternal Imprisonment, Investment in Families and Schools, and Child Educational Inequality
Regulating the Crisis: An Exploratory Study of Landlord Responses to Pandemic-Era Tenant Protection Regulations
Science and the Legal System
The Hero and the Monsignor: Law, Sexual Violence, and the Catholic Church
Verification of Voter Eligibility: The Process of Disenfranchisement
World Justice Project

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We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution Process

Winter 2015
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Accessing Justice in the Contemporary USA: Findings from the Community Needs and Services Study

Fall 2014
Rebecca L. Sandefur
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Accessing Justice in the Contemporary USA: Findings from the Community Needs and Services Study

August 2014
Rebecca L. Sandefur
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Devolving the Carceral State: Race, Prisoner Reentry, and the Micro-Politics of Urban Poverty Management

July 2014
Reuben Jonathan Miller
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The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

May 2014
Abhay Aneja, John Donohue III and Alexandria Zhang
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Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Winter 2014
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Aberrant Sexualities and Racialized Masculinization: Race, Gender and the Criminalization of African American Girls at the Illinois Training School for Girls at Geneva, 1893–1945

July 2013
Tera Agyepong and
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In the Belly of the Beast: Black Policemen Combat Police Brutality in Chicago, 1968-1983

Spring January 2013
Tera Agyepong and
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Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

August 2013
Traci Burch
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Talking about Parental Incarceration at the White House: Creating a National Dialogue Between Researchers, Practitioners and Policy Makers

Summer 2013
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The Juice Isn't Worth the Squeeze: The Impact of Tort Reform on Plaintiffs' Lawyers and Access to Civil Justice

Spring 2013
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Children Left Behind Bars: Sullivan, Graham, and Juvenile Life without Parole Sentences

March 2013
Tera Agyepong and
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