14 min listen
Is Punishment the Only Response to Violence and Poverty?
FromPolicyCast
ratings:
Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Feb 10, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
HKS Professor Bruce Western, Chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, explains how the prison population in the United States has quintupled since the 1970s and advocates for changes to the penal code to better deal with deep-rooted social problems.
Released:
Feb 10, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Accidental Fall of the Berlin Wall: Professor Mary Elise Sarotte, a visiting professor at the Harvard Center for European Studies and author of “Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall,” explains how the opening of the border between East and West Germany came down to a decision by PolicyCast