11/01/23 – USA Today “In Robert Card’s hometown in Maine, law enforcement officers heard repeated warnings about him from relatives and fellow soldiers, yet they never took the one step experts say could have separated Card from his guns before he committed the deadliest mass shooting in state history.”
10/29/23 – The San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego’s jail population fell about 30 percent in the year after March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic orders. A study from researchers at UC Irvine and the University of Arizona found that had no consistent impact on violent or property crime.
10/26/23 – CJRA California’s efforts to reduce its jail populations during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to slow the spread of the virus did not affect crime in the state, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California (UC) Irvine and the University of Arizona.
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10/20/23 – EurekaAlert! 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. […]
10/18/23 – New Books Network The United States has long been associated with a very harsh criminal justice system with, in some cases, people serving long sentence for minor crimes. But attempts to reform the system have proven very difficult. In her new book Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration (Stanford […]
10/17/23 – EurekaAlert! Movement to end mass incarceration explored as a symbol that can inform larger political, sociological questions
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 […]
Movement to End Mass Incarceration Explored as a Symbol That Can Inform Larger Political, Sociological Questions The First Step Act (FSA), signed into law in 2018, contributed significantly to reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized U.S. policy for decades. In a new book, Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End […]
10/06/23 – Arnold Ventures In her new book Reform Nation, criminologist Colleen Eren reflects on the unusual and sometimes uneasy coalition that brought about the criminal justice reforms of the First Step Act — and what’s next for a divided movement.