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The nationwide movement to help the formerly incarcerated restore their rights and re-integrate with civilian society spread to 36 states in the first six months of 2019, underlining the growing bipartisan support for justice reforms.
More than 1.5 million children have at least one parent behind bars, raising long-term concerns about their well-being. A new study argues prison authorities should make family “engagement” a priority.
Rearrest and reconviction rates declined in the four years following California’s enactment of major justice reforms aimed at shifting lower-level offenders from state prisons to county jails, according to a new study.
Ongoing research in Baltimore crime “hot spots” is finding an inverse relationship between an area’s crime rate and the willingness of local residents to intervene in street problems.
The huge cash settlements won so far in suits against pharmaceutical manufacturers should be used to help relieve the pressures on courts across the U.S. caused by the opioid epidemic, argues the editor of a major international medical journal.
Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Law School argue that the criminal justice system should publicly acknowledge and celebrate cases where those who have been convicted of a crime show remorse and atone for their behavior.
Foreign entities that threaten U.S. economic, governmental, and social infrastructure through cybersabotage should be classified as “terrorist” to give authorities the same powers to that they have to intervene against violent terror groups, says a forthcoming article in the Indiana Law Journal.
A study by two researchers at the University of Southern California used daily crime data from the City of Los Angeles and found an increase in crime as temperatures became hotter.
Why haven’t the recent shifts in public opinion in favor of criminal justice reform produced more concrete changes across the country? A paper in the Boston College Law Review blames local bureaucratic resistance to changes in the status quo.
In a bracing analysis of the country’s third largest state prison system, the Crime and Justice Institute identified serious disparities in sentencing policy, and called for a major overhaul to bring Florida into alignment “with current research on public safety and recidivism reduction.”