Latest News

05/15/20-NJ.com “It looks to me like it’s going horribly,” Sara Wakefield, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

Washington State legalized cannabis sales to adults in 2012, the first U.S. state to do so. Yet little is known about how police, who are on the front lines of implementing the law, experience legalization. A new study evaluated the effects of legalizing cannabis on police officers’ law enforcement efforts in Washington. The study found […]

Continue Reading

05/07/20-Axios “Abuse facilitated by technology is now the most common form of domestic abuse, followed by in-person psychological abuse, physical and sexual abuse,” Alison Marganski, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

05/03/20-NJ.com “New Jersey prisons, more than any other prison anywhere else in the country, are in the middle of a vortex,” Todd Clear, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

05/03/20-NJ.com “Could New Jersey have acted faster? Absolutely,” Christine Tartaro, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

05/03/20-CorrectionsOne “Could New Jersey have acted faster? Absolutely,” Christine Tartaro, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

Read the April 2020 newsletter here.

Continue Reading

04/20/20-NJ.com “Even if we had a place as isolated as Alcatraz — which we do not anywhere in New Jersey — it would still be risky to not be doing testing in the prison system,” said Christine Tartaro, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

04/20/20-The Crime Report “Property crimes are crimes of opportunity and with most businesses closed, there are simply fewer opportunities,” Charis Kubrin, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading

04/19/20-Bloomberg “There are fewer store owners and bystanders who might witness crimes in action and report them — providing less deterrence for would-be offenders,” Charis Kubrin, CJRA Expert.

Continue Reading