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The Executive Session on Human Rights Commissions and Criminal Justice is currently at work on projects related to several issues: police misconduct, hate or bias crimes and recruitment diversity within law enforcement agencies. Additional projects focusing on other issues, including job discrimination against ex-offenders and selective enforcement of immigration laws, will be undertaken over the course of the Session.
The Executive Session's projects aim to document innovative work by commissions, to compare a variety of approaches to similar problems, and to produce tools that commissions can use as they expand their work with the criminal justice system. Individual projects engage members of the Session with Harvard faculty and students and are designed to lead eventually to publications available on this website as well as public discussion of the issues and experiences elsewhere.
In addition to demonstration projects and case studies, we are working on a couple of overview papers. One discusses differences and similarities between U.S. human rights commissions and national human rights institutions (NHRIs). The second traces the history of the development and growth of human rights commissions in the United States, with an emphasis on work done in the criminal justice area.
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