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We've added 20 new reports to the research clearinghouse:
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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2016 by Prison Policy Initiative, March, 2016
(The American criminal justice system holds more than 2.3 million people in thousands of facilities, and we go deeper to provide further detail on where and why.) See similar reports about:
Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Drug Policy
Immigration Detainees Jails Pretrial Detention
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Race, Wealth and Incarceration: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth by Race and Social Problems, March, 2016
"[T]he likelihood of future incarceration still was higher for blacks at every level of wealth compared to the white likelihood[.]" See similar reports about:
Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
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Punishment Rate Measures Prison Use Relative to Crime by The Pew Charitable Trusts, March, 2016
"A more nuanced assessment of punishment than the ratio of inmates to residents is that of inmates to crime —"what The Pew Charitable Trusts calls the "punishment rate."" See similar reports about:
Data Collection Crime and Crime Rates
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Stakeholders' Views on the Movement to Reduce Youth Incarceration by National Council on Crime and Delinquency, April, 2014
"From June 2012 through June 2013, NCCD asked juvenile justice stakeholders to describe how youth incarceration was reduced in their jurisdictions." See similar reports about:
Juveniles Community Impact
Families
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InCorrect Care: A Prison Profiteer Turns Care into Confinement by Grassroots Leadership, February, 2016
"This report's in-depth analysis of GEO Group, GEO Care and now Correct Care Solutions' involvement in operating mental health hospitals and civil commitment centers exposes serious concerns."
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Mental Health Prison Privatization
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Recidivism Among Federal Offenders: A Comprehensive Overview by United States Sentencing Commission, March, 2016
"This report provides a broad overview of key findings from the United States Sentencing Commission's study of recidivism of federal offenders." See similar reports about:
Recidivism and Reentry
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Criminal (In)justice: A Cost Analysis of Wrongful Convictions, Errors, and Failed Prosecutions in California's Criminal Justice System by The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, Berkeley School of Law, March, 2016
"Criminal (In)justice examines 692 adult felony criminal cases where California missed the mark in public safety by failing to prosecute the right person or by pursuing a flawed or unsustainable conviction."
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Community Impact Trials
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Children with Incarcerated Parents - Considering Children's Outcomes in the Context of Family Experiences by University of Minnesota, June, 2013
"Given the potential long-term consequences of parental incarceration for child and adult health, targeted, evidence-informed prevention and intervention efforts are sorely needed."
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Families Community Impact
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2013 by National Center for Juvenile Justice, July, 2015
"Juvenile Court Statistics 2013 describes delinquency cases handled between 1985 and 2013 and petitioned status offense cases handled between 1995 and 2013 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction."
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Juveniles Sentencing Policy
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Evaluation of the Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development Program: Year 4 Evaluation Report by Urban Institute, September, 2015
"The analyses presented in this report address GRYD's efforts to impact gang violence at the individual, family, and community levels, paralleling the GRYD program components targeting each of these levels."
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Community Impact Families
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Juvenile Transfer Laws: An Effective Deterrent to Delinquency? by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, June, 2010
"This Bulletin provides an overview of research on the deterrent effects of transferring youth from juvenile to criminal courts[.]" See similar reports about:
Juveniles Recidivism and Reentry
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Adult Sex Offender Management by Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking, July, 2015
"This brief has focused on the effectiveness of a number of prominent sex offender management strategies, including specialized supervision, COSA, polygraph, GPS, civil commitment, SORN, and residence restrictions."
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Sentencing Policy Community Impact
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The Effects of Changing State Theft Penalties by The Pew Charitable Trusts, February, 2016
"Increased felony thresholds have not resulted in higher property crime or larceny rates." See similar reports about:
Sentencing Policy Community Impact
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Is Proposition 47 to Blame for California's 2015 Increase in Urban Crime? by Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, March, 2016
"There are no obvious effects associated with Proposition 47 that would be expected if the reform had a significant and consistent impact on crime." See similar reports about:
Crime and Crime Rates Community Impact
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Administrative Segregation in U.S. Prisons by National Institute of Justice, March, 2016
"Across the political spectrum, there is growing concern about the efficacy and utility of administrative segregation practices[.]" See similar reports about:
Prisoner Welfare Mental Health
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Criminal Justice Consensus Cost-Benefit Working Group by Vermont Center for Justice Research, April, 2014
"The State of Vermont needs to reinvigorate its commitment to supporting evidence-based programming in criminal and juvenile justice." See similar reports about:
Community Impact Sentencing Policy
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"Do You See How Much I'm Suffering Here?" Abuse against Transgender Women in US Immigration Detention by Human Rights Watch, March, 2016
"[T]his report details the abuses that transgender women suffer in immigration detention and the US government's inadequate efforts to address them." See similar reports about:
Prisoner Welfare Civil Rights
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Pretrial Incarcerated Women: An Analysis of Women in Bristol County Jail, Massachusetts by Wellesley Centers for Women, March, 2016
"This brief policy report examines these women's demographic and criminal justice characteristics and, focusing particularly on their race and ethnicity, examines the relationships between them."
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Women Families
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A National Picture of Prison Downsizing Strategies by The RAND Corporation, February, 2016
"After decades of unprecedented correctional expenditures and prison population growth, many states faced fiscal pressures on their corrections budgets as the country entered a deep recession in 2008."
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Prison and The Economy
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Rehabilitating Corrections in California: The Health Impacts of Proposition 47 by Human Impact Partners, September, 2014
"The key to achieving the full benefits of sentencing reform is funding and implementation of the treatment, prevention, and recovery services called for in the initiative." See similar reports about:
Community Impact Sentencing Policy
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