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View AllHow AI Tools Can Help Assess Verbal Eyewitness Statements
February 27, 2024
Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model (LLM) to parse eyewitness confidence statements.
‘False Positive’ Field Drug Tests Lead to Wrongful Convictions
January 9, 2024
A pathbreaking Quattrone Center report shows that the use of presumptive field tests in drug arrests is one of largest known contributing factors to wrongful arrests and convictions.
The Case for Sentinel Event Reviews
July 6, 2023
Quattrone Center Executive Director John F. Hollway C’92, MAPP’18 explains how SERs can improve the criminal justice system.
Driving Systemic Change to Prevent Domestic Violence Fatalities
June 6, 2023
The Quattrone Center and the City of San Francisco have released a report recommending policies and procedures to reduce domestic violence-related fatalities.
Ending Mass Incarceration
April 26, 2023
At Slate, Seema Saifee, Quattrone Center Research Fellow, explores how incarcerated individuals have contributed to the conversation on reducing incarceration and crime.
Leading the Process for Systemic Policing Change
April 19, 2023
The Quattrone Center has released of the final set of recommendations from a Sentinel Event Review (SER) of incidents during protests following the murder of George Floyd.
When Innocence Is Not Enough
April 6, 2023
Tom Dybdahl L’98 and Christina Swarns L’93 recently discussed prosecutorial misconduct, the Brady rule of evidence disclosure, and Dybdahl’s new book.
When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule by Thomas L. Dybdahl L’98
March 7, 2023
Dybdahl chronicles the evolution of the Brady rule from its unexpected birth to the legal challenges that left it defanged and ineffective.
Policing Marginalized Communities
January 23, 2023
This past semester, Quattrone Center Fellow Anjelica Hendricks engaged students in the study of how policing intersects with race, gender, ability, and other intertwined socio-economic identities.
Mandating Taped Interrogations
January 18, 2023
“[A] focus on best practices to avoid undue coercion and false confessions would go a long way to improve the quality of justice in Pennsylvania,” writes the Quattrone Center’s Marissa Bluestine.
Journalism for Justice
January 17, 2023
Former Washington Post journalist Radley Balko is joining the Quattrone Center as a Journalist Fellow.
Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania
January 11, 2023
The Quattrone Center has released “Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania,” the first study to review Pennsylvania interrogation practices.