09/14/23 – Scientific American Decarceration and Crime Do Not Go Hand in Hand – Charis Kubrin, CJRA expert
09/14/23 – Scientific American Decarceration and Crime Do Not Go Hand in Hand – Charis Kubrin, CJRA expert
10/3/23 – Newsweek “There’s a lot of misunderstanding around what the nature of human trafficking looks like.” – Rachel Lovell, CJRA expert
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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 […]
01/10/23-Inside Higher Ed“Studying criminology is not going to make you a criminal, and it’s not going to make you a better criminal. What we teach is ‘how come?’ Not ‘how’,” James Alan Fox, CJRA Expert.
11/21/22-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“It really will take a lot of extensive training that goes beyond the anywhere from four to eight hours that most agencies are willing to spend on implicit bias training,” Delores Jones-Brown, CJRA Expert.
11/02/22-IndyStar“You don’t want to release information that the defense will use to disqualify witnesses or jurors or both and will compromise the integrity of the process,” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.
10/24/22-Snopes“Those comparisons look at the prior year to assess whether certain types of crime are up or down. Such comparisons may seem straightforward, but violent crime, particularly homicide, is statistically rare enough that a rise or fall from one year to the next doesn’t necessarily mean there is reason to panic or celebrate,” Justin Nix, […]
09/22/22-TIME“For example, if we’re in a community that has 100,000 people the estimates are that there are only 30 to 40 that are carrying weapons and committing crimes. In a general deterrence theory, a curfew just doesn’t make sense. There’s no data or theory that really supports the approach,” said Paul Elam, CJRA Expert.
09/22/22-TIME“There are a handful of studies that have been done on juvenile curfews and unfortunately the overall conclusion is they don’t really have an impact,” Dave Myers, CJRA Expert.