Justice Research Fund

A project that funds and performs qualitative and quantitative research on issues related to crime and public safety

About Our Advisors

Jonathan Chavez

Jonathan Chavez has emerged as one of the most talented analytical minds in America. His statistical models have been used to predict everything from political elections to the efficiency of NBA players, to success on the PGA Tour and box office openings.

Justin Levinson

Professor Levinson is a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system. His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court.

Rob Smith

Rob was previously an assistant professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught criminal law and evidence. Rob earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Rob founded and ran both The Justice Collaborative and The Appeal, two non-profit organizations focused on the criminal legal system. Rob’s scholarship has appeared in numerous law journals and has been published in numerous national media outlets. His work has been cited by courts including the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, Mother Jones, USA Today and the ABA Journal, among others.

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Clark County Death Penalty Polling Memo

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Clark County Death Penalty Polling: https://www.scribd.com/document/555367380/Clark-County-Death-Penalty-Polling-Memo