Data in Indigent Defense: Gauging Improvement in Defense Efforts and Outcomes in New York: Preliminary Findings

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Funding shortages and excessive caseloads are the most important policy issues in indigent defense. Studies of the impact of those two phenomena are few and far between. The GIDEON project exploits a massive injection of new resources into indigent defense systems in New York to evaluate whether and to what extent they make the difference that advocates expect. This panel will discuss preliminary findings from the project.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 46. Courts & Sentencing

Individual Presentations

• What Hurrell-Harring Was Supposed to Do - Andrew L. Davies, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law; Carlos Sanchez, SMU Dedman School of Law

• What Hurrell-Harring Did - Katherine Becker, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law

• How Hurrell-Harring Did It - Caitlin Charles, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law

Organized by a Division or external group?

The Indigent Defense Research Association