08/26/20-The Crime Report “We have already been using the micro data to consider cohort differences in sub-populations. It turns out that the sentencing shocks have been felt most acutely among the African-American population,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-News Break “We believe that this occurs because these individuals accumulated an extended criminal history under a determinate sentencing regime—implemented in 1994 and still in effect today—that systematically increases punishment for individuals with prior convictions,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-Eureka Alert “Birth cohorts who were young adults during the crime and punishment boom that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s have higher rates of incarceration throughout their lives, even after the crime-punishment wave ended,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-Phys.org “Birth cohorts who were young adults during the crime and punishment boom that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s have higher rates of incarceration throughout their lives, even after the crime-punishment wave ended,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-Spot Crime “Birth cohorts who were young adults during the crime and punishment boom that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s have higher rates of incarceration throughout their lives, even after the crime-punishment wave ended,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-Science Codex “Birth cohorts who were young adults during the crime and punishment boom that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s have higher rates of incarceration throughout their lives, even after the crime-punishment wave ended,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-National Affairs “In longitudinal analyses of monthly school‐level administrative data, we compared the treatment and comparison schools on disciplinary offenses and actions. We found that increased SROs increased the number of drug‐ and weapon‐related offenses and exclusionary disciplinary actions for treatment schools relative to comparison schools,” Gottfredson et al., CJRA study.
Although U.S. crime rates have dropped significantly since the mid-1990s, rates of incarceration peaked in 2008, and still remain high. The standard explanation for this pattern is that all people exposed to the criminal justice system today are treated more harshly than before. A new study using 45 years of incarceration data from North Carolina […]
08/10/20-Wall Street Journal “Other factors could be behind the increased shootings. Residents were staying closer to home because of social distancing and thus could be more predictable targets,” David Kennedy, CJRA Expert.
08/03/20-Atlanta Journal Constitution “It does seem a little suspect (if) they don’t have the basic material they feel they need to do their jobs,” Danielle Rudes, CJRA Expert.