All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
This video is an excellent example of “demand side” tactic for reducing guns. It also show how a policing strategy impacts a community.
The police department in Washington, D.C., has seized thousands of illegal weapons, but an investigation finds that 4 out of 10 cases of illegal gun possession are dismissed in court.
— Read on www.npr.org/2018/10/24/659980871/d-c-s-aggressive-confiscation-of-illegal-guns-leaves-residents-feeling-targeted
Dr. Goldstein is one of my favorite Criminal Justice Authors.
This paper is an edited version of the speech given upon being awarded the 2018 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. After a brief introduction, the paper describes the concept of problem-oriented policing (POP), first proposed in 1979. It goes on to assess the extent to which the police have adopted POP, and its current status. POP is, in the immediate sense, aimed at a reduction in the incidence or severity of the problem on which attention is focused, and, in the broader sense, at improving the fundamentals of policing in a democratic society.
— Read on crimesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-018-0087-3
OJJDP’s Risk Assessment and Behavioral Health Screening Project, cofunded in 2014 with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examined whether using a risk assessment for reoffending coupled with mental health and substance use screening protocols improves case processing, service allocation, and recidivism rates.
The study encompassed multiple probation offices in Arkansas and Rhode Island. Both states administered a risk assessment instrument in conjunction with the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Version 2 (MAYSI-2) for mental health screening and the CRAFFT substance use screening tools. As one component of the study, the researchers examined service referral, how services were used, and recidivism outcomes of youth. They also studied if and how services and outcomes were influenced by the potential behavioral health needs identified in MAYSI-2 and CRAFFT.
Overall, the researchers found that mental health services were used more often than risk-reduction services in most sites and had little influence on recidivism. There was some evidence that substance abuse treatment reduced recidivism among youth identified in CRAFFT as having a substance use problem.
This is a link to the OJJDP website: https://www.ojjdp.gov/newsletter/252069/sf_6.html?utm_source=NewsAtAGlance102218&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsAtAGlance&utm_content=ResearchCentral
Link to the REPORT: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/grants/251912.pdf
This is an article I discovered through a “Google Alert” I use.
The article discusses prisoner mental health, treatment, and recidivism.
This article points out an apparent flaw in many public nuisance laws — they can penalize crime victims. In the case of domestic violence, some victims who have called the police multiple times have crossed a threshold that put their home into the public nuisance category, particularly risky when renting from a landlord. Others have…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/crime-victim-vs-public-nuisance/
A 2016 study of blight on 32 Topeka city blocks found an increase in number of police calls, code violations and dollars spent when there were abandoned buildings in an area.The study, conducted by Wichita State University, found that about $31,100 in additional personnel resources were needed to complete code violation cases in city blocks with abandoned housing present rather than those without.The effects of abandoned housing in those areas were significant: police response frequency to city
— Read on www.cjonline.com/news/20181014/run-down-abandoned-buildings-pose-problems-for-law-enforcement
The Wichita State 2016 REPORT
San Diego police using social media videos to attract millennials – The San Diego Union-Tribune
— Read on www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-police-recruit-20181011-story.html
Presents data on the nature and frequency of contact between police and U.S. residents age 16 or older, including demographic characteristics of residents, the reason for and outcomes of the contact,
— Read on www.bjs.gov/index.cfm
Ex-NYC Probation Chief: Why I Joined the ‘Mass Bailout’ https://thecrimereport.org/2018/10/05/why-i-helped-bail-someone-out-this-week/#
Mass Bail out of women and youth https://rfkhumanrights.org/news/rfk-bail-action
Research pretrial detention https://www.arnoldfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LJAF-Pretrial-CJ-Research-brief_FNL.pdf
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