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.
2/6/19 – The Crime Report “Our results revealed that school intervention appears to be an important predictor of adolescent drug use among female and minority subjects, and police arrest leads to drug use among females only,” Beidi Dong, 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.
2/5/19 – Democrat & Chronicle “School exclusion is related to a greater likelihood of drug use, both in the short term and over a person’s life, by an average of 49 percent,” Beidi Dong, CJRA Expert.
Research has told us that school disciplinary practices lead to juvenile justice interventions, and that both school exclusion and juvenile justice intervention lead to adversities like drug use in adolescence and adulthood. Yet it’s unclear which form of intervention—being suspended and expelled from school or being arrested by police—is more likely to lead youth to […]
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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 […]
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