The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/research-analysis/)
Students ages 12 to 18 experienced 827,000 crime victimizations at school and 503,800 victimizations away from school in 2017, says a new report. That compared with 749,400 victimizations at school and 601,300 away from school the previous year.
A series of preventable mistakes sent George Cortez to prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Philadelphia’s police, legal and judicial community used a groundbreaking DOJ initiative to come up with ways to make sure it never happens again.
During the now-condemned “tough-on-crime” era, federal higher education assistance was made off limits to anyone in prison. But a pilot $35 million effort to revive it is now in its fourth year—and apparently flourishing—in 26 states.
The 151 men and women released from U.S. prisons last year after their cases were dismissed spent a total of 1,639 years incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit, the National Registry of Exonerations said in its annual report. The Registry called it a “record.”
An examination of social media posts by two recent mass killers by the Anti-Defamation League suggests that a global shadow community of white supremacists goads its members into deadly hate crimes.
A Princeton University researcher confirms what many advocates of preventative policing have argued: the visible presence of more cops on the streets, rather than the number of arrests they make, can reduce crime.
Law enforcement agencies are dealing with so much data from smartphones and other digital devices that their investigation backlogs now average three months, according to a new survey.
A forthcoming report in the American Journal of Medicine found that the gun-related death rate of school-age children over the past two decades was six to nine times higher than other developed nations—a rate higher than that reported for police officers and the military.
Despite reductions in the state’s pretrial population, the “over-representation of black males” needs attention, according to New Jersey’s Administrative Office of the Courts.
Despite fears that recent statewide justice reforms have threatened public safety, crime in 73 major California cities declined “precipitously,” according to the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.