The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/research-analysis/)
An Urban Institute study released June 21 says body cameras have a “civilizing effect” on police encounters even when a civilian is unaware that an officer is wearing a camera– suggesting that the cameras may be changing the way officers behave.
A survey conducted by the John Jay College Center on Terrorism found that only 38% of all respondents “expressed familiarity with the general idea that climate change could multiply global threats such as political violence or mass migrations, or act as a catalyst for conflict.”
The comprehensive new analysis published in the medical journal Pediatrics goes deep into the data on the uniquely American affliction of firearms that kill and injure staggering numbers of children.
A Pew Charitable Trust analysis shows no correlation between state-level imprisonment rates of drug offenders and rates of illicit drug use, overdose deaths, and arrests.
The number of pretrial suspects jailed jumped 436 percent between 1970 and 2013 in rural counties, says the Vera Institute of Justice and the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety + Justice Challenge.
Crime rates in California have plummeted—especially among youth—over the last 35 years. At the same time, nonwhites have become the majority in the state. The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice says the parallel trends refute arguments that immigration threatens public safety.
Black homicide defendants in Louisiana are more likely than whites to face charges making them eligible for the death sentence in cases in which their victims are white, according to a Northeastern University study.
An Urban Institute study released June 1 found that sudden spikes in gun violence can reduce the growth of new businesses, while neighborhoods with higher gun violence had fewer retail and service businesses, and fewer new jobs. The study looked at six U.S. cities.
The lack of state-enforced standards represents a “missed opportunity” for helping youth avoid the harmful lifetime consequences of involvement with the justice system, according to a report released May 31 by Strategies for Youth, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based nonprofit.
Does shrinking the size of prison populations save taxpayers money? Not always, says a study released May 23 by the Vera Institute of Justice. The study found that 25 states increased their spending on prisons even though the nation’s overall prison population has declined.