The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/research-analysis/)
Under a proposal by the Vera Institute of Justice, the city will be the first in the country to replace money bail and conviction fees— “the twin pillars on which money injustice stands”— with a fair system aimed at reducing the number of individuals held in pretrial detention.
As a wave of tougher abortion laws spreads across the U.S., a new study finds that crime dropped significantly between 1997 and 2014 in the five states where abortion was legalized in the 1970s, before Roe v Wade. The reason, according to the authors: Fewer unwanted children grew up in adverse circumstances that influenced future criminal behavior.
The NYU Brennan Center for Justice reports an 8 percent decline in murder rates in America’s 30 largest cities, in a final estimate of 2018 crime figures that contradict assertions of a “crime wave.”
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, using Justice Department data, also projected an 11 percent increase in federal weapons prosecutions during 2019.
The study results represented a marked reversal from the findings of a 2014 study, which showed a correlation between legal medical cannabis and lower opioid mortality.
The mean reduction was 73 months or just over 29 percent, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Elected judges impose harsher criminal sentences on defendants if they watch conservative news media, in particular Fox News, according to a Columbia Business School research paper.
Just 11 individuals were prosecuted for hiring undocumented workers in the past 12 months, compared to nearly 86,000 would-be immigrants arrested for being in the country illegally in the same period, according to a TRAC study.
Despite the 2018 Supreme Court ruling to uphold President Trump’s executive order restricting entry of foreign nationals from Muslim and other countries considered sources of terrorism, a legal expert says advocates still have plenty of room to protect individuals affected by the ban.
In a nine-year analysis of released sex offenders, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 67 percent were re-arrested, compared to 84 percent of other released prisoners. But they were more likely to be arrested for sex crimes than others who recidivate.