CJARS is looking to add two Research Assistants and one Project Manager to its expanding team. To learn more about the positions, and details on how to apply, click on this link. We look forward to your application.

For all attending the 2021 American Society of Criminology conference, come and join CJARS on Friday November 19th from 9:30 to 10:50 AM for its thematic panel on recent advancements in the project. We will be discussing efforts to validate the data infrastructure, machine-learning tools being developed to assist with classification of offense description data, various new research projects, and information on data access.

Keith Finlay and Mike Mueller-Smith have published their results from a study where they examined labor market outcomes for justice-involved individuals since the Great Recession. The paper was published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and U.S. Census Bureau Working Papers series.

CJARS is proud to announce the three winners of the 2021 NSF-CJARS Research Fellowship Competition. We were humbled by the number of impressive applications that we received and we are excited for the research that our fellows will conduct. Welcome us in congratulating Siyu Liu, Chika Okafor, and Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill.

Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill

Director of Research and Data Analytics
Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney’s Office

Siyu Liu

Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
School of Public Affairs
Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

Chika Okafor

Doctoral Student
Department of Economics
Harvard University

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to support small businesses. However, some businesses are not eligible for this program if an owner of 20% or more of the equity of the business has had certain disqualifying events based on their history of involvement in the justice system. The goal of this report was to estimate the overall impact of these criminal history disqualifications. You can download the report here. The report was also released as Census Bureau ADEP Working Paper ADEP-WP-2020-04.

In anticipation of researcher access to CJARS data through the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) system, CJARS has released a draft of the data documentation. Stay tuned for regular updates.