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A new study found that for 1 in 16 US women, their first sexual intercourse experience was rape. They’ve concluded that these victims are “more likely to suffer worse long-term health outcomes than women who had sex voluntarily the first time.”
Police Executive Research Forum’s new survey says police departments are facing a workplace hiring and retention crisis with a “triple threat” of a decrease in applications, early exits and higher rates of retirement.
States are gradually increasing the minimum age at which young people can be prosecuted as adults—reversing a practice fueled by spurious fears of so-called “superpredators,” says a paper by the Campaign for Youth Justice. But there’s still a long way to go.
Critics blame a sweeping federal law on crime policy that was signed 25 years ago Friday for the nation’s persistent problem of mass incarceration. A new analysis says that overstates the case.
State budget authorities should be wary of raising their hopes too high about the potential of legal marijuana to enrich their coffers, says a new Pew study.
The general trend of violent crimes has been steadily declining since the 1990s, but that crime rate appears to have reversed in recent years, based on findings released from Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Underfunding of indigent defense services is a major factor driving mass incarceration and racial bias in the U.S. justice system, more than 50 years after the Supreme Court ruled that everyone has a right to a lawyer regardless of ability to pay, says the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
One of the government’s favorite tools in the War on Drugs—seizing the property of individuals convicted of drug-related crimes—appears to be losing favor with authorities, according to a study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The strategy has come under fire from critics on both the left and right.
During the first 10 months of fiscal year 2019, the government reported that 204 terrorism-related prosecutions had been filed, says the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Of these, 71 were for acts of domestic terrorism, compared to 34 for international terror cases.
Federal inmates aged 55 and older, many of whom got life sentences amid the war on drugs of the 1990s, are among the fastest growing population of incarcerees in the U.S., according to a report on prisoners serving life sentences for non-violent crimes published in conjunction with the Buried Alive Project.