California has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since it was reinstated in 1978. But its violent crime rate outpaces the national average, writes a leading conservative who welcomes the moratorium announced this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/03/14/death-penalty-another-failed-big-government-program-ca-conservative/
Tag: Crime
Funding of Rape-Kit Testing Leads to 1,000 Arrests | The Crime Report
Languishing evidence in 100,000 sexual assault cases around the U.S. has been sent for DNA testing with money from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and federal authorities, leading to more than 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years. Another 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits await testing,
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/03/12/funding-of-rape-kit-testing-leads-to-1000-arrests/
See also Cyrus Vance report
Integrated Health Care and Criminal Justice Data: Lessons from Camden, New Jersey | Harvard Kennedy School
Integrated Health Care and Criminal Justice Data — Viewing the Intersection of Public Safety, Public Health, and Public Policy Through a New Lens: Lessons from Camden, New Jersey
April 5, 2018Authors: Anne Milgram, Jeffrey Brenner, Dawn Wiest, Virginia Bersch, and Aaron Truchil
— Read on www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener/programs/criminaljustice/research-publications/executive-session-on-community-corrections/publications/integrated-health-care-and-criminal-justice-data
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
There are more mass shootings where gun laws are weaker, according to a study – Vox
Mass shootings are more common in states with weaker gun laws and higher levels of gun ownership, the study found.
— Read on www.vox.com/2019/3/8/18254626/mass-shootings-gun-violence-laws-study
Here is a link to the article.
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
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— 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/
Civil Rights and the School- to-Prison Pipeline in Oklahoma
Where is the chapter for bad behavior and punishment?
www.usccr.gov/pubs/docs/Oklahoma_SchooltoPrisonPipeline_May2016.pdf
Case Study of NYC Program Proves ‘No Need to Lock Up Kids for Public Safety’ | The Crime Report
Juvenile arrests in New York City were slashed in half since the city stopped sending young people to youth detention facilities far from their homes under the 2012 ‘Close to Home’ law, according to a case study released Wednesday.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/02/27/case-study-of-nyc-program-proves-no-need-to-lock-up-kids-for-public-safety/
Here are more resources on Youth Detention including a link to the report discussed in the above article.
Office of Children and Family Services
Close to Home
https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/rehab/close_to_home/
http://www.cclp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Close-to-Home-Implementation-Report-Final.pdf
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/250142.pdf
Youth Detention
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/06-11_rep_dangersofdetention_jj.pdf
Police Make 10 Million Arrests a Year, but That Doesn’t Mean They’re Solving Crimes
The intercept has an interesting article on police arrests. In the article the Vera Institute has a new arrest day a tool the looks very interesting. I have a like to it in the post right before this post.
Too many arrests? Is it the police fault or the persons breaking the law?
Amid aggressive enforcement of minor offenses, most victims don’t report crimes to police and fewer than 25 percent of reported crimes are solved by arrest.
— Read on theintercept.com/2019/01/31/arrests-policing-vera-institute-of-justice/
