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Since 2011, California has significantly reformed its criminal justice system, reducing the size of its prison population, with no effect on violent crime and only marginal impacts on property crime statewide. The COVID-19 pandemic furthered decarceration as the state reduced state prison and jail populations to slow the spread of the virus. Concerns emerged that […]

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The widespread use of digital technologies and the Internet has spurred a new type of personal intrusion, known as cyberstalking. Incidences of cyberstalking have risen, with the U.S. Department of Justice estimating that more than 1.3 million people experience this type of victimization annually. A new study explored research to identify the factors associated with […]

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1/12/24 – houstonchronicle.com Mayor John Whitmire said after entering office he was concerned communication among law enforcement was hindered by using different technology.

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Read the December 2023 newsletter here

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12/14/23 – nola.com “We have a favorable demographic situation—we are aging and older people commit less crime,” – Gary LaFree

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12/6/23 – The Washington Post “I think they’ve been understudied. We don’t have a lot of great data,” – Daniel Webster

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12/4/23 – San Francisco Chronicle “Because crime and crime trends are caused by so many different things that are very dynamic and simultaneous, you have to be very careful about causal attribution,” – Charis Kubrin

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Read the November 2023 newsletter here

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11/10/23 – ABC 10 “There’s no such thing as a human being that is not inherently implicitly biased” – Lois James

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11/08/23 – reason The author of Reform Nation explains how celebrity, philanthropy, and activism produced the most significant prison reform in decades.

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