Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Skeem on Her IRLE Faculty Research Award! We’re proud to announce that Dr. Jennifer Skeem has been selected for a 2025–26 Faculty Research Award by UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE). This…
Top 10 Most-Cited in 2023: Recognizing Our Impact in Criminology & Public Policy We’re proud to announce that our article “Understanding racial disparities in pretrial detention recommendations to shape policy reform”—authored by Jennifer Skeem, Lina Montoya, and Christopher Lowenkamp—was recognized…
New Research: How Protective Factors Reduce Youth Reoffending The latest brief from the Youth Protective Factors Study—a partnership between the CSG Justice Center, UMass Chan Medical School’s Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center, and UC Berkeley’s Risk-Resilience Lab—examines how protective…
Explore How Protective Factors Reduce Youth Reoffending—Register for Our Webinar! Join the CSG Justice Center, UMass Chan Medical School’s Implementation Science and Practice Advances Research Center, and UC Berkeley’s Risk-Resilience Lab for a webinar on the latest findings from the…
Racial Disparity in Federal Pretrial Detention: Trends Over Two Decades and the Impact of Risk Assessments This study, led by Christopher Lowenkamp (U.S. Courts), Jennifer Skeem (UC Berkeley), and Lina Montoya (UNC Chapel Hill), examines changes in racial disparities in…
un-TILTED! Wins Gold at the 2024 Serious Play Awards We are thrilled to announce that un-TILTED!, a video game intervention developed by our lab, has won Gold at the 2024 Serious Play Awards! The game, designed to help young adolescents…
Promoting Prosocial Identity: A New Pathway for Positive Youth Development We’re thrilled to share that our work on juvenile fees had been cited in The Imprint’s news article, “DOJ Calls on States to Eliminate Juvenile System Fines and Fees.” The…
Reducing Burden, Improving Outcomes: Juvenile Fee Repeal in Alameda County What is the study about? The research study, led by Dr. Jaclyn E. Chambers, Dr. Jennifer Skeem, Dr. Luyi Jian, and Dr. Karin D. Martin, focused on the effects of…
Dr. Skeem & Dr. Montoya reveal criminal history, not bias, drives racial disparities in pretrial detention, calling for policy reform. Dr. Jennifer Skeem & Dr. Lina Montoya’s latest study, ‘Understanding racial disparities in pretrial detention recommendations to shape policy reform’,…
Promoting Prosocial Identity: A New Pathway for Positive Youth Development We’re thrilled to share our latest paper titled “Getting Traction on Positive Youth Justice: Prosocial Identity as a Promising Target for Intervention,” authored by our team members Luyi Jian and…
