4: Numbers Don't Lie

With(in)

This week, Denise, Draper, and Ashley sit down with criminologist, professor and DU Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI) faculty advisor, Dr. Jeff Lin. Dr. Lin is interested in the ways that criminal outcomes are impacted by systemic arrangements of policy and practice. Using quantitative and comparative methods, he has examined these dynamics among juvenile offenders, parolees, and sex offenders, and through analyses of media coverage of serious crime and the effects of large-scale changes to state correctional policies. Pulling from his own research and knowledge base, Jeff discusses sentencing laws and answers questions about who is in prison, and what prison is for. For more information on With(in), including team bios and how to subscribe to our newsletter, Reverberations from With(in), please visit our website: https://www.thisiswithin.com.