Jorge Camacho

Jorge Camacho is a clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School. He is also the policing, law, and policy director of Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory, which brings academics together to use science to create a more just society.

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The Criminal System is Full of People With Psychopathy. It Fails to Help Them.

An associate professor of psychology and a clinical lecturer in law at Yale explain how they’ve seen the criminal legal system treat psychopathy as a moral failing—instead of a treatable mental illness.

Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Jorge Camacho

Feb 17, 2023