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Episode 87. Courts and Bail Decisions with Alix Winter

It’s Episode 87 of The Criminology Academy podcast! On today’s episode, we have Dr. Alix Winter on the podcast. We discuss her work on courts and bail decision making among court actors!

Alix Winter is the Chief Data Scientist for the Racial Profiling and Biased-Based Policing Investigations Unit at New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. She is also an Affiliated Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Incite, where she was previously a Postdoctoral Research Scholar. Alix studies how institutional structures and actors reproduce racial and socioeconomic inequalities and how what happens in one domain refracts out to impact seemingly peripheral people and domains. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University.

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Screenshot During the Episode Recording – November 20, 2023

Get in touch with Alix:
Alix Winter’s Website // aw2257 AT columbia.edu

This is the article authored by Alix and her colleague that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Winter, A. S., & Clair, M. (2023). “The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions. Criminology61(4), 904-928. [Article Link].

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