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                            Funding & Awards
 Prosecution and Racial Justice in New York County
Award Information
Awardee
              Vera Institute of Justice
Award #
              2011-DJ-BX-0038
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Brooklyn, NY
Congressional District
              7
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2011
Total funding (to date)
              $385,715
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 11 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2011, $385,715)
The grantee, the Vera Institute of Justice, will partner with the New York County District Attorney's Office (DANY) to examine discretionary prosecutorial decisions for the purpose of reducing racial and ethnic disparity in case outcomes. Vera will work with DANY, expert consultants and local stakeholders to develop monitoring capabilities that identify potential disparity, and reexamine policies and practices that may contribute to disparity at stages including case screening, dismissal, charging, plea and sentencing recommendations. Data from DANYCaseInfo will be supplemented with data provided by the criminal court and departments of police, probation, and corrections for misdemeanor and felony cases disposed in 2010. About 20 assistant district attorneys across units will be interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire to identify: factors including strength of evidence that influence prosecutorial decisionmaking; and four offenses of interest. A random sample of 3,000 cases will be drawn to represent equal distributions of white, black, and Latino defendants, resulting in 250 cases per defendant race/ethnicity x offense type. Logistic regression models will be used to analyze case outcomes at each stage, and continuation ratio models will be used to partition case outcome analyses (subsequent decisions are conditional on preceding ones), controlling for defendant, victim, defense counsel, arresting officer, and prosecutor characteristics. In addition to the data and written deliverables required by NIJ, anticipated work products include increased local monitoring and analysis capacity, briefs on the partnership process and policy implications, and professional conference presentations.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Tracing Charge Trajectories: A Study of the Influence of Race in Charge Changes at Case Screening, Arraignment, and Disposition
                  Opening Pandora's Box: How Does Defendant Race Influence Plea Bargaining?
                  Does Evidence Really Matter? An Exploratory Analysis of the Role of Evidence in Plea Bargaining in Felony Drug Cases
                  Race and Prosecution in Manhattan - Research Summary
                  Prosecution and Racial Justice in New York County - Partnership Report
                  Prosecution and Racial Justice in New York County - Technical Report

  
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