Category: CRJ101 Intro CJ

Probation and Parole Systems Marked by High Stakes, Missed Opportunities | The Pew Charitable Trusts

As part of a collaborative effort to improve the nation’s community corrections system, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation analyzed the leading research and identified the most pressing problems and some promising solutions. The available data leave many questions unanswered, but this review reveals key insights and challenges many assumptions about supervision.
— Read on www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2018/09/probation-and-parole-systems-marked-by-high-stakes-missed-opportunities

Here is more information:

Less is More in New York: An Examination of the Impact of State Parole Violations on Prison and Jail Populations

https://justicelab.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Less_is_More_in_New_York_Report_FINAL.pdf

Failure should not be an option: Grading the parole release systems of all 50 states

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/grading_parole.html

Civil rights violations data causes bad predictive policing

A new report investigates how 13 jurisdictions, including Chicago and New Orleans, were feeding systems data sullied by “unconstitutional and racially biased stops, searches, and arrests.”

— Read on www.fastcompany.com/90312369/how-dirty-data-from-civil-rights-violations-leads-to-bad-predictive-policing

The report can be accessed HERE

Younger Americans Much More Likely to Have Been Arrested Than Previous Generations; Increase Is Largest Among Whites and Women | RAND

Americans under the age of 26 are much more likely to be arrested than Americans born in previous decades, with the increase in arrest rates occurring most rapidly among white Americans and women. The rising rate of arrests and convictions is associated with a variety of negative ramifications.
— Read on www.rand.org/news/press/2019/02/25.html

The study can be accessed HERE

John Jay College on Vimeo

Video from 2 symposiums:

Crime in America and The Hidden Costs of the Criminal Justice System.

Day 1 of the Guggenheim Symposium

0:57 minute mark criminogenic effect of prison

0:59 min Research on mass incarceration

1:09 h:m prison doesn’t work

1:26 h:m restorative justice – can it restore and fix fear?

3:08 h:m violence in America

5:40 h:m mass shooting** excellent for CRJ-302

John Jay College is a member of Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
— Read on vimeo.com/johnjaycollege/videos

Beyond Broken Windows: What Really Drives Urban Crime – CityLab

The premise of this article illustrates hot people and crime. It talks about hot people but I’m sure that these serious crimes occur in only a small percentage of city PLACES which generates the majority of crime.

KEEP in mind that .6% of a City of 258,612 people is 1552 SERIOUS offenders. That is not an insignificant number.

Maybe the perception of a dangerous neighborhood is because a part of the city has a concentration of the 1552 people.

OR maybe the 1552 people are distributed throughout the city creating 5 really bad people in each neighborhood.

Most serious urban violence is concentrated among less than 1 percent of a city’s population. So why are we still criminalizing whole areas?
— Read on www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/02/broken-windows-theory-policing-urban-violence-crime-data/583030/

Educators, officers focus on disrupting school-to-prison pipeline in Tulsa Public Schools forum on community policing | Crime & Courts | tulsaworld.com

See also https://futureofpolicing.blog/2019/03/03/civil-rights-and-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-in-oklahoma/

 

A panel discussed moderator queries and responded to written questions submitted by audience members for two hours during the “Community Conversation” event Thursday night at the TPS Education Service Center.
— Read on http://www.tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/live/