Title: Legal scholar’s new website offers a picture of the criminal justice system
Year: 2020
Interviewer: Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Publisher: Northwestern Now
Issue: May 29, 2020
Description: Using a small subset of death-eligible murder cases, a new database and website, 2003 Chicago Murders, launched by a Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor, Leigh Buchanan Bienen, offers a glimpse into the criminal justice system—more specifically the Circuit Court of Cook County pretrial detention system in the first six months of 2003—and the bureaucracy surrounding them.
