Month: January 2024

Hardening the System: Three Commonsense Measures to Help Keep Crime at Bay | Manhattan Institute

After a long period of continuous violent-crime declines throughout the U.S.—spanning from the mid-1990s through the early 2010s—many American cities are now seeing significant increases in violence. Nationally, in 2015 and 2016, murders rose nearly 11% and 8%, respectively.[1] The national homicide rate declined slightly in 2017 and 2018, before ticking upward in 2019.[2] In 2020, […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/hardening-the-system-three-commonsense-measures-to-help-keep-crime-at-bay

Adults With Mental Illness Are Overrepresented in Probation Population | The Pew Charitable Trusts

Adults on probation—supervision imposed by the court generally in lieu of incarceration—are more than twice as likely to have a serious or moderate mental illness as those in the general public, according to analysis of federal data from 2015 to 2019 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
— Read on www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2024/01/adults-with-mental-illness-are-overrepresented-in-probation-population

See a .PDF version of the report HERE

Wrongful Convictions The Literature, the Issues, and the Unheard Voices | Office of Justice Programs

The report contains three chapters: Chapter 1 reviews 100 years of scholarship on wrongful convictions, ranging from early case studies of exonerations to more recent scientific analyses of wrongful convictions. The review finds that knowledge about the prevalence and causes of these serious miscarriages of justice remains limited and mixed at best. Chapter 2 focuses on several “elephants in the courtroom” that have not garnered significant attention among wrongful conviction scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists. This section examines the deep linkages between race, society, the administration of justice, and wrongful convictions. Chapter 3 discusses the major themes that emerged during the listening sessions in an effort to better understand the problems victims and those who have been exonerated face during the review of post-conviction innocence claims and after the exoneration. The report concludes with policy recommendations to help address the most pressing issues. 
— Read on www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/wrongful-convictions-literature-issues-and-unheard-voices