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Missouri’s rate of black homicide victimization in 2015, the latest year available, is nearly two and a half times the national rate, says the Violence Policy Center. Missouri was followed in the list by Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Alaska, and Nebraska.
Officers “need to be conscious of the fact that literally every single person they come in contact with may be carrying a concealed firearm,” says John Jay College criminologist David Kennedy. According to Vox.com and University of Chicago criminologist John Roman, the stronger the gun control laws, the fewer police killings.
A Colorado program called Work and Gain Education and Employment Skills has helped parolees get education and work skills and has a low re-arrest rate, says an Urban Institute report.
Putting inmates to work has long been regarded as a rehabilitation strategy. But an economics law professor argues that the growing production of “made in-USA-prison” goods also enables private industries to profit from popular hostility to foreign outsourcing, with little oversight.
According to a forthcoming study in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, there’s little evidence that opioid addicts benefit from involuntary commitment, and the “legal and ethical” concerns raised by such strategies should make policymakers think twice about employing them.
A New York State pilot program to make naloxone kits available to inmates on their release from prison is a “promising” model for other states seeking to reduce opioid deaths among America’s most vulnerable population, says the Vera Institute of Justice.
As virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa become part of our lives, they also open up new threats to privacy. A researcher argues that both the First and Fourth Amendments should protect customers from unwarranted attempts to use virtual content as evidence.
Two economists conclude that granting full immunity to officers for wrongful arrests and detention of innocent people might deter crime, but it may also reduce police competence at identifying real criminals.
The state, one of several which have adapted alternatives to youth incarceration, is on track to save over $72 million in detention costs by 2022. Under Kansas law, the money will be reinvested in programs such as home-based supervisions and community services.
The Vera Institute of Justice plans to track major trends and developments in criminal justice throughout the country, focusing on 12 key areas, ranging from gun ownership to sexual assault.