This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two health program methods are rarely used in Tanzania but have significantly reduced intimate partner violence in some communities, an ongoing study found. International development organization BRAC’s Tanzania chapter recently…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Early this year — before COVID-19 began to tear through U.S. prisons — five people were killed in Mississippi state prisons over the course of one week. A civil rights lawyer reported in February…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Global efforts to end gender-based violence should strengthen their focus on adolescent girls in humanitarian settings, finds a new study. “Despite the fact that we know that violence against adolescent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President-elect Biden and vice president–elect Harris have already announced that combating violence and supporting survivors of intimate partner violence will be a priority for their administration. Practitioners and researchers agree it is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s decades-long war on drugs has failed, simultaneously causing huge harms — fueling drug-related violence around the world and funneling millions of people into jails and prisons — and not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Following several nationally publicized police killings of unarmed Black Americans in the United States, Eva L., a fitness instructor who identifies as Black, started to experience what she describes as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer was one of thousands of Americans bitten by police dogs every year. Police dog bites are rarely fatal. But in other ways,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mainstream media is less likely to cover Black homicide victims and less likely to portray them as complex human beings, a new study shows. When Raymond Griffin was shot and…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A study at SSRN analyzes the wide-ranging effects of private prison contracting on inmate recidivism and financial capacity. • How can you learn more about different…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About one third of all 30-year-old men who aren’t working are either in prison, in jail, or are unemployed ex-prisoners. Almost half of ex-prisoners have no reported earnings in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The deaths of more than 350 migrants in the 2013 sinking of an overloaded smuggling vessel off the Italian island of Lampedusa shocked the world and reignited debate over the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To this day, Washington’s criminal justice system can arrest and charge young people under the age of 18 with the crime of prostitution under state law. At the same time,…