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Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. The latest investigation …
APHA Annual Conference
Measure of America presents its latest youth disconnection report "Two Futures: The Economic Case for Keeping Youth on Track" about the long-term impacts of disconnection at the American Public Health Association's Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
SSRC-IFS Workshop: “The Will of the People”
This workshop, held at Columbia University, is the fourth in a series of convenings organized as part of a collaboration between the SSRC's Anxieties of Democracy program and our namesake European partner program, Anxieties of Democracy, at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies. The workshop explores the idea of popular sovereignty and how to define "the will of the people." Questions addressed include: What does it mean for the people to be sovereign? What is “the will of the people”? By what criteria and by whom should this will be ascertained, judged, and acted upon? What is a valid method …