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In addition to ongoing projects which focus on the minimization of jurors' knowledge of pretrial publicity; a model of pretrial prejudice in high profile cases; and the predictors of failure to appear and re-arrest for pretrial releases, the Center has started new projects which include:
uNevada Department of Education: The Nevada Department of Education and Grant Sawyer Center are collaborating on a grant-funded program to conduct a variety of assessments of Nevada's standardized testing data. These assessments are used to determine fairness in testing across subpopulations of students and to inform testing policy decisions in the state.
uState and Religion: Dr. James Richardson has completed a book titled, Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe, which contains chapters written by scholars around the world on how minority faiths are regulated and controlled by governments. Countries included are: France, the U.K, The Netherlands, Germany, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, India, Italy, Japan, China, and others. Although the book focuses on new religious movements, it also deals with how many minority religious groups are treated in different countries.
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