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Summer 2024 – Research Intern, Beyond Jails Initiative

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Vera Institute of Justice

Mar 18

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Starts on Jun 02
    Summer Internship
  • Research & Development
  • Washington, DC, +1

Requirements

  • Experience conducting analysis of quantitative data, ideally related to criminal justice or other social policy issues, either on your own or in collaboration with a professor and/or full-time researchers;
  • Comfort working with quantitative data, preparing data for analysis, conducting descriptive and statistical analysis;
  • Commitment to advancing racial and gender equity in work;
  • Curiosity about emerging research and advocacy in the criminal justice space;
  • Strong writing skills;
  • Preferred:
  • Completed or currently enrolled in a social sciences program at the undergraduate or graduate level, with quantitative research training
  • Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities you'll bring:
  • Professional, personal or academic engagement with issues of mass incarceration and mass criminalization
  • Experience conducting research using different methods (quant analysis, analysis of interview and survey data, archival research, etc.)
  • Proficiency in data visualization, database, and/or coding tools such as SQL, Python, Tableau and others.
  • Technical knowledge we need you to be prepared to use:
  • Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
  • At least one statistical software: R, Stata
  • Preferred but not required: familiarity with SQL, Python, Tableau, Github, Google Cloud environment

Responsibilities

  • Quantitative analysis of court data:
  • Using Pennsylvania court data to analyze patterns in pretrial decisions and case outcomes, at the county level
  • Preparing these findings for different audiences
  • Cleaning and analysis of criminal legal system administrative data:
  • Cataloguing data sources and gathering various types of data, including but not limited to administrative data from criminal legal system agencies, budget data, and socio-economic data;
  • Cleaning and analyzing administrative data to answer questions about how local criminal legal systems work;
  • Writing and presenting literature reviews and memos on pretrial and local criminal legal system issues:
  • Writing memos or brief reports that document practices and summarize findings;
  • Presenting findings and implications for policy to Vera teams and external partners.

Vera Institute of Justice

Securing equal justice, ending mass incarceration, and strengthening families and communities. Founded 1961.

Government
Industry
201-500
Employees
1961
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

We envision a society that respects the dignity of every single person. And we're working to realize it. We work with others who share our vision to tackle the most pressing injustices of our day - from the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, and the loss of public trust in law enforcement, to the unmet needs of the vulnerable, the marginalized, and those harmed by crime and violence.