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| Subject: UNC's School of Law wants to know how attorneys influence criminal justice Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:07 pm | |
| A professor in the School of Law at UNC is close to completing a study on all of the country's district attorneys and their influence on state criminal justice policy. Law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick launched the Prosecutors and Politics Project in 2018. She received some funding from The Vital Projects Fund and the Charles Koch Foundation. “The goal of the Prosecutors and Politics Project is to find out more about the role of politics in the criminal justice system generally, and for prosecutors specifically,” Hessick said. Hessick said researchers first determined how many elected prosecutors exist in the country and created a database containing their information. The second part of the project will focus on tracking election cycles and statistics, including campaign donations. “When it comes to the criminal justice system, prosecutors wield a lot of power,” Hessick said.
https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2019/09/koch-law-0923 |
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