The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/author/ted-gest/page/2/)
Based on a study in four jails around the U.S., the Vera Institute of Justice concludes that “it is possible to forestall suicides in custody with a comprehensive suicide prevention program” that includes “sentinel event reviews.”
Ongoing research in Baltimore crime “hot spots” is finding an inverse relationship between an area’s crime rate and the willingness of local residents to intervene in street problems.
The House committee overseeing the Justice Department budget advanced a proposal that would defund Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program dating from 2002 that the Trump Justice Department revitalized. The program still may be saved by the Senate.
Advocates tell a National Academies of Sciences committee how the number of youth arrests in the U.S. could be lowered further and help maintain the decline in juvenile crime.
Amy Bach of Measures for Justice was recognized for her organization’s work tracking the performance of the criminal justice system at the county level, Her work has already prompted a new law on data transparency in Florida, an effort that backers are seeking to replicate in California and other states.
Reporting by the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on mass shootings won awards. Another winner was Hannah Dreier of ProPublica for a series on a crackdown on the MS-13 gang that also won a John Jay College of Criminal Justice prize this year.
Experts gathered at Virginia’s George Mason University to discuss how to analyze mass violence incidents, react to them and possibly to stop them from happening.
A review of 70 studies of police body-worn cameras finds that they win support from police and private citizens alike, but their impact on officer behavior and on citizen views of the police is not consistent.
At a Washington, D.C., panel, Govs. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Phil Bryant of Mississippi told their colleagues that investing in prisoner education should be a top priority.
Two decades after Amadou Diallo was killed by four New York City police officers in the wrongful belief he carried a gun, fatal police shootings of unarmed civilians continues to mire U.S.police agencies in controversy. Criminologists are planning a new set of studies to examine why–and offer solutions.