Who Counts as a Victim with Alysia Santo

Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

EpisodeJan 22, 201921m

Who Counts as a Victim with Alysia Santo

Voir Dire: Conversations from the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management

EpisodeJan 22, 201921m

States provide money to people who have been victims of crime to reimburse them for the costs of their victimization—things like therapy, funerals, etc. But Alysia Santo, an investigative reporter for the Marshall Project, finds that only some people count as victims.

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Voir Dire is an interview-based podcast about criminal justice reform. Sometimes, we share the conversations taking place on Harvard’s campus; other times, we start conversations outside of those small classrooms. Working or living in the criminal legal system can habituate you to the cruelty and wastefulness of the whole thing. In this podcast, we try to contextualize these systems, pick the brains of the most thoughtful people in criminal justice reform, and think big about how to ameliorate the mass incarceration crisis. Hosted by Schuyler Daum.

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