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The use of prescription opioids by drivers is increasingly implicated as a contributory cause in fatal motor vehicle crashes, according to a new study published in the JAMA Network Open.
The verdict is mixed, according to The Crime Report’s annual survey released Friday. Despite some bright spots, continued layoffs and closures have forced many smaller news outlets to reduce their coverage, leaving millions of Americans in the dark about the practices of local courts, law enforcement and justice agencies.
A new study of prescribing practices in California found that between 2011 and 2015, residents of neighborhoods with the highest proportions of white people were more than twice as likely to be prescribed an opioid pain reliever than residents of neighborhoods where whites were scarce.
A “reimagined” justice system should pay more attention to poverty, housing and unemployment, says Bruce Western, one of the nation’s leading experts on mass incarceration.
Marijuana possession arrests have dropped in New York City and in upstate New York since their peak in 2011, but African Americans and Hispanics still had higher rates of arrests compared to whites, according to a new report from John Jay College.
The nation’s prosecutors today have an historic opportunity to eliminate the charging practices that have caused the imprisonment of disproportionate numbers of African Americans, says the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College.
School shootings can be averted when parents, school authorities and students themselves take seriously the signals indicating potential violence from troubled youths, and communicate their concerns as quickly as possible, according to the Police Foundation.
Even though arrests have sharply declined over the last decade, to 10.5 million a year, it’s still a “staggeringly high” number—with detrimental impacts on the quality of life in many parts of the country, reports the Vera Institute of Justice.
New research into the harms of domestic violence to the children who grow up around it shows that witnessing abuse carries the same risk of harm to children’s mental health and learning as being abused directly.
A study by the Immigrant Defense Project finds that the federal agency strategically targets New York courthouses for undocumented immigrant arrests— a move it claims will have a chilling effect on immigrants’ willingness to collaborate with courts across the state.