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Anna Harvey is a Professor of Politics at New York University (NYU), affiliated with the departments of Data Science and Law. She serves as Director of the Public Safety Lab and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel. Her research focuses on criminal justice reform, policing, judicial politics, and political economy, with particular attention to racial disparities and policy impacts. Harvey holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in political science from Princeton University and the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University.
Her work includes groundbreaking studies on the effects of misdemeanor prosecution on recidivism, the impact of reform prosecutors on crime rates, and the role of fiscal incentives in law enforcement. She leads the Jail Data Initiative, collecting and analyzing county jail records to address pretrial detention practices and voting rights. Recent projects explore the causal effects of Citizens United on legislative preferences and historical civil rights litigation on crime victimization disparities.
Harvey has received grants from the William T. Grant Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Arnold Ventures, and others. She co-authored Judicial Decision-Making: A Coursebook (2020) and previously served as President of the Social Science Research Council. Her research emphasizes rigorous causal inference methods, including regression discontinuity designs and difference-in-differences approaches.
Harvey’s Public Safety Lab collaborates with law enforcement agencies and nonprofits to design equitable criminal justice policies. Ongoing projects include evaluating the effects of prosecutorial reforms, analyzing jail incarceration’s impact on voting, and investigating racial disparities in policing outcomes. Her work bridges academia and public policy, aiming to inform evidence-based reforms.
