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Police should focus on policies and practices that lend themselves to “procedural fairness,” according to researchers who conducted interviews of 687 victims of non-sexual crimes in Seattle.
Oklahoma has the nation’s highest incarceration rate, but Ohio and Idaho jump into the lead when probation and parole is included, says a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative.
A survey of citizens in the U.S. and 12 European countries found that males don’t understand the extent to which women experience sexual assault or harassment. American men for example underestimate the true levels by almost half.
Some 10 million Americans now hold criminal debt totaling over $50 billion, burdened by accumulating court fines and fees they are unable to pay. It’s a hidden practice that damages communities and ruins lives, but the federal government seems to be looking the other way, writes an FSU law professor.
So finds a study by reform group FWD.us and Cornell University, based on a representative sample of 4,000 people. The study found that six of 10 African Americans and Native Americans have had immediate family members behind bars.
A series of studies of news coverage of mass shootings also found that whites involved in mass shootings are more likely to be associated with mental illness than African Americans.
Comprehensive Background Check (CBC) policies may not affect firearm background checks, a new study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found.
Project New Opportunity (PNO), created under President Obama’s Clemency Initiative and the United States Sentencing Commission’s (USSC) 2014 reduction in drug sentencing guidelines, has proven successful in reducing recidivism among ex-incarcerees, a new study has found.
Some 58 percent of women killed worldwide last year were the victims of intimate partners or family members, according to the United Nations, in a report that called for more effective cooperation among police, the justice system, and health and social services to prevent the killings.
The nation seems to be emerging from the “long tunnel” of the opioid crisis, but substituting medical marijuana as an alternative form of care may land us in a “fog of extensive, additional public health repercussions,” warn Arizona researchers.