Michael Mueller-Smith This grant supports the maintenance and expansion of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) to include health- and public-health-related measures in its planned web-based data portal; to expand data-collection efforts geographically (by state) and by types of criminal justice system procedures; and to increase the data linkages of CJARS data and other… Continue reading Strengthening the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System to address limitations in data integration between criminal justice and public health

William H. Frey William Frey works with Cathy Sun and lead the research project to produce new race-age-generation projections for each of the 50 states through 2060 in addition to analysis of national demographic trends in the voting age population, eligible voters, and actual voters. William Frey will co-author two major papers of 30 –… Continue reading Voter Study Group

Michael G. Mueller-Smith The University of Michigan (UM) will conduct statistical analysis in support of understanding the impact of criminal justice-based exclusions from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Payment Protection Program that was adopted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. UM will leverage confidential integrated micro data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)… Continue reading COVID-19:Statistical analysis of exclusions from the U.S. SBA Payment Protection Program during COVID-19

Michael Mueller-Smith, Keith Finlay The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) is a project created to address gaps in the existing data infrastructure of the U.S. criminal justice system. The U.S. criminal justice system has six million individuals under correctional supervision and requires hundreds of billions of dollars in public expenditures. Scholars and policymakers have… Continue reading RIDIR: Developing and Deploying the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System

Michael Mueller-Smith The Local Jail Reporting Pilot aims to improve the administration of the justice system and enable the creation of knowledge that could be used to inform policy discussions about justice system reform (Wormeli, 2018). Recent advancements by criminal justice data infrastructure projects, such as the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS), though now… Continue reading Local Jail Reporting Program (LJRP) Pilot Test

Erin Cech This project centers the cultural belief systems that help the most powerful social group in STEM resist DEI efforts. Findings from this study will identify specific cultural narratives that serve as cultural scaffolds for resistance to DEI efforts and test intervention strategies that may help deconstruct these ideological roadblocks. Much research on inequality… Continue reading Ideological Roadblocks to Diversifying STEM: Resistance and Allyship in STEM Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Meghan O’Neil, Debra Anne Pinals, Jeffrey Morenoff, David Cordova Jr, Charles C. Brown, J.J. Prescott, William Elliott The project will evaluate an intervention designed to increase the availability of drug treatment through novel online tools that improve access to justice. Unresolved legal obligations frequently prevent substance users from entering into and sustaining drug treatment. Accordingly, access to justice… Continue reading Removing Barriers to Recovery: Community Partnering for Innovative Solutions to the Opioid Crisis