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Causes: Crime & Law, Crime & Legal-Related
Mission: Working to strengthen prosecutorial ethics,curb over-criminalization, and bring an end to wrongful convictions.
Programs: Presumption of innocence project:analyze the causes and correlations of wrongful convictions for criminal offenses: identify policy approaches to remedy the erosion of the presumption of innocence.
campus sexual assualt project: promote policy reforms to involve criminal justice authorities in sexual assault cases, assure meaningful santions are imposed on the guilty, and assure due process protections are observed for all.
registry of prosecutorial misconduct: identify and summarize documented cases of prosecutorial misconduct across the country.