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Yusef Salaam, left, and Raymond Santana, two of the “Exonerated Five,” spoke to Duke Law students Sept. 3, during an event marking the launch of the Duke Center for Science and Justice moderated by Professor Brandon Garrett, right.
New Duke Law center delves into science of criminal justice 2
Duke Law Magazine • Fall 2019
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new center based at Duke Law School is applying legal and scientific research to reforming the criminal justice system. The Duke Center for Science and Justice brings together faculty and students in law, medicine, public policy, and arts and sciences to pursue research, policy and law reform, and education in three areas: accuracy of evidence in criminal cases; the role of risk in criminal outcomes; and addressing a person’s treatment needs as an alternative to arrest and incarceration. It also is examining the needs of formerly incarcerated persons who are re-entering society. The center is led by Brandon Garrett, the L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law and a leading scholar of criminal procedure, scientific evidence, and wrongful convictions.
