Why Data Doesn’t Stick

Why Data Doesn’t Stick

Update: 2022-03-24
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Efforts to reform the justice system often tout they’re “evidence-based” or “data-driven.” But at a moment when a national increase in crime, likely triggered by the pandemic, seems to have put the reform movement on its heels, why do arguments based on data rarely seem to win the day? Guests Christina Greer and John Pfaff are both scholars and frequent media commentators working at the intersection of criminal justice data and politics.


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Hear Pfaff on New Thinking as part of our series on Prosecutor Power

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Why Data Doesn’t Stick

Why Data Doesn’t Stick

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