Jack McDevitt is Associate Dean of Research for the College of Social Sciences & Humanities. McDevitt also directs the Institute on Race and Justice. Jack is the coauthor, with Jack Levin, of Hate Crimes Revisited, as well as coauthor of numerous governmental reports, including "Improving the Accuracy of Bias Crimes Statistics Nationally", which was released by the White House in 2000. He has been teaching and conducting research at Northeastern University for nearly the last two decades.
Articles
Learning through work: an empirical study of legal internship (with Daniel J. Givelber, Brook K. Baker, and Robyn Miliano), School of Law Faculty Publications (1995)
The authors present the results of an extended empirical investigation of law students' beliefs about...
Reports
Identifying challenges to improve the investigation and prosecution of state and local human trafficking cases (with Amy Farrell, Rebecca Pfeffer, Stephanie Fahy, Colleen Owens, Meredith Dank, and William Adams), Institute on Race and Justice Publications (2012)
This report examines challenges faced in the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking in the...
Street outreach workers: best practices and lessons learned: innovative practices from the Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative Series (with Scott H. Decker, Tim S. Bynum, Amy Farrell, and Sean Varano), Institute on Race and Justice Publications (2008)
Street outreach workers are an important part of the Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community...
Understanding and improving law enforcement responses to human trafficking: final report (with Amy Farrell and Stephanie Fahy) (2008)
Though recognition of the importance and severity of human trafficking has grown in recent years,...
Rhode Island traffic stop statistics 2004-2005: final report: executive summary (with Amy Farrell), Institute on Race and Justice Publications (2006)
Rhode Island traffic stop statistics data collection study 2004-2005: final report (with Amy Farrell), Institute on Race and Justice Publications (2006)
Dissertation
Factors influencing racial disparities in traffic enforcement in Massachusetts, Law, Policy, and Society Dissertations (2008)
This dissertation seeks to understand the extent to which community-level or organizational-level factors are related...