I am currently co-leading, with Dr. Deborah Koetzle and Dr. Jeff Mellow, a project in Central America that aims to assess the consolidation of judicial reforms that introduced an adversarial system of criminal justice. To do this we are interviewing criminal justice operators, gathering official statistics, and we are implementing a survey to individuals in prison to learn about their experiences with criminal proceedings and their life in prison. For this project we have partnered with Joel Capellán, from Rowan University, and with IUDOP-UCA in El Salvador. Our main goal is to provide evidence-based recommendations of policy reforms to improve the capacity and performance of the criminal justice system.

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Selected media coverage of our work:

• Defensoría investiga sobre Sistema Penal Acusatorio del John Jay College neoyorquino (September 2, 2022)

• Universidad de Nueva York presentó ante las autoridades de la Dirección General del Sistema Penitenciario, el informe preliminar sobre el estudio de la transición del sistema inquisitivo al Sistema Penal Acusatorio (August 24, 2022)

• Universidad de Nueva York realiza estudio en centros penitenciarios (January 2, 2022)