Ten states and the District of Columbia now allow the sale, possession, and use of marijuana for recreational purposes, and 33 states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana. Critics argue that marijuana dispensaries are magnets for crime. A new study found an association between marijuana dispensaries and increases in rates of crime and […]
2/16/19 – The Atlantic “If you just go by the raw numbers, it is undoubtedly an undercount of domestic-violence homicides,” April Zeoli, CJRA Expert.
2/5/19 – Education Dive “A juvenile justice arrest is meant to be kept quiet, while being removed from school for disciplinary reasons is more “directly visible” and widely known among the school community and even potential employers,” Beidi Dong, CJRA Expert.
Read the January 2019 newsletter here.
1/21/19 – NJ.com “As much as real life scenarios can be useful in terms of giving the officers a sense of what can happen, they can not create or mimic the sense of real stress, fear and uncertainty that accompany the real life events,”Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.
Read the December 2018 newsletter here.
Many prisons today use sanctions to discipline prisoners, including segregating them from other inmates, transferring them away from other inmates, and removing them from rehabilitation programs. A new longitudinal study that sought to determine the effect of these sanctions on recidivism found that prisoners who had greater exposure to formal sanctions were more likely to […]
Read the November 2018 newsletter here.
11/20/18 – CNN “What we know in the criminology literature, for example, is that when people desist from crime, when they stop committing crime, it’s usually because of someone important in their life. But it’s not always the same person — it could be a spouse; it could be a coach; it could be an […]
11/12/18 – NBC “It is probably smart for women to have a certain level of risk aversion while they run because they are vulnerable targets to predators,” says Laura Dugan, CJRA Expert.