the crime report

Mass incarceration policies have taken a heavy toll on American families, neighborhoods and society.  In an essay for The Crime Report, in advance of publication of a major American Academy of Arts and Sciences project, Prof. Glenn Loury of Brown University, calls for a profound change.

Over the past four decades, the United States has, by any measure, become a vastly more punitive society. This expansion, and transformation, of  U.S. penal institutions—which has taken place at every level of government, and in all regions of the country―is without historical precedent or international parallel.

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A new study study using data  from FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports from years 2000– 2007, explored the effect of financial loss on familial homicide.  In the report, “Social Structure and Family Homicides,” researchers found a strong link between economic deprivation and family homicide and  were stronger for intimate partner homicides and filicides.

Read the report here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on homicides.

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Location-based social networks using geotagging technology are a cool way of letting friends and family keep track of you—and as a law enforcement tool, they  can protect public safety. But when we share, do we really know who’s watching?

In the world of social networking, Carri Bugbee is hardly a novice. The Portland, Oregon social media marketing strategist has 7,164 followers on Twitter, 1,197 Facebook friends and more than 500 connections on LinkedIn. But when she got involved with geotagging through a location-based network, she received an uncomfortable wake-up call.

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Nearly one in seven women who sought abortions at a large family planning clinic in Iowa reported at least one incident of physical or sexual abuse in the past year, a new study, “Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Among an Abortion Clinic Population,” found. Published in the American Journal of Public Health researchers at the University of Iowa, College of Public Health and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland studied 986 patients over the course of a year.

Access the study here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on Domestic Violence.

The criminal justice division of the American Bar Association released their annual report: The State of Criminal Justice 2010. Authors from across the criminal justice field provide essays on topics ranging from white collar crime to international law to juvenile justice. The 2010 volume contains 19 chapters focusing on specific aspects of the criminal justice field, with new addition of full text and reports of all of the adopted official ABA policies passed in 2009-2010 that address criminal justice issues.

Access the report here.

Additionally the committee also released a list of active criminal justice Federal legislation.

Read the list here.

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On June 25 and 26th  2010, 18  journalists from across the country gathered with preeminent experts in tribal justice at The University of New Mexico School Of Law for a specialized reporting institute. The Institute, one of a series of advanced journalism workshops on pressing topics supported annually by the Chicago-based McCormick Foundation, is co-sponsored by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ), the Department of Communication &Journalism at University of New Mexico, the School of Law at the University of New Mexico and the Native American Journalists Association.

Topics discussed included: jurisdictional issues on and off reservation, violence against women, substance abuse use among native population, and the theft of native art and cultural artifacts. Speakers included: Brendan Johnson, U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota, Bernadine Martin, Chief Prosecutor, Navajo Nation, Everett Little Whiteman, Director of Public Safety, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Marcus MacCaskill, Special Agent, FBI, and Tracy Toulou, Director of the Office of Tribal Justice, Department of Justice.

Read the full agenda here.

Read the press release announcing the selection of tribal justice fellows.

Resources

American Indians and Crime, by Steven W. Perry, Statistician, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice

Census of Tribal Justice Agencies, 2002

Improving Criminal History Records in Indian Country

Improving Recidivism Data in Indian Country by Steven W. Perry, Statistician, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.  JRSA Forum – June 2008, Vol. 26, No. 2

The Nation’s Two Crime Measures

 Jurisdictional Variation in American Indian Criminal Justice: An Argument for Stronger Understanding and Better Methods by Attorney General Larry Long, South Dakota

DOJ Tribal Justice Fact Sheet

Thomas Perrelli, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice Op-Ed

Special Journal Issue on Tribal Justice by the Center on Court Innovation

Articles by our Fellows

“Despite witness, confession, Navajo man cleared of molesting infant daughter,” by Joseph Kolb, Gallup Herald

“Obama says he’ll sign Tribal Law and Order Act,” by Felicia Fonesca, Associated Press

“Standing Rock’s tribal court stays busy,” by Jenny Michael,  The Bismark Tribune

“Tribal Law and Order Act expected to felt on Standing Rock,” by Jenny Michael,  The Bismark Tribune

“UTTC plans training to ease tribal officer shortage,” by Jenny Michael,  The Bismark Tribune

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