Technical Support for New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission

Funding Agency: Arnold Ventures

Principal Investigator: Robert Apel

Co-Principal Investigator: Todd Clear

This project provides technical support to the newly reconstituted New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission (CSDC) in its charge to reduce mass incarceration and racial disparity. The objectives include providing (1) timely social science reviews of the potential impact of prison reforms on the size and racial disparity of the state prison population; and... Learn More

AP-LS Grants in Aid for Early Career Professionals

Funding Agency: American Psychology-Law Society

Principal Investigator: Colleen Berryessa

Dr. Berryessa and colleague Dr. Melissa de Vel-Palumbo were recently awarded the 2020 American Psychology-Law Society Grant in Aid for Early Career Professionals for our project “When Bad Things Happen to Rotten People: Tolerance for Incidental Suffering of Criminal Offenders.” When people break the law, they often struggle to regain the trust and forgiveness of... Learn More