We've added 19 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Does Immigration Enforcement Reduce Crime? Evidence from "Secure Communities" by University of Chicago Law; New York University Law School, August, 2014
  "Our results show that Secure Communities has led to no meaningful reductions in the FBI index crime rate." See similar reports about:
  Immigration Detainees Crime and Crime Rates
• Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies by Sentencing Project, September, 2014
  "Studies have shown that whites who associate crime with blacks and Latinos are more likely to support punitive policies —including capital punishment and mandatory minimum sentencing— than whites with weaker racial associations of crime." See similar reports about:
  Public Opinion Sentencing Policy
• Close-Range Gunfire around DC Schools by Urban Institute, September, 2014
  "Fifty-four percent of DC schools covered by gunfire-detection technology had at least one burst of gunfire occur within 1,000 feet of the school." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Community Impact
• State Variation in Hospital Use and Cost of Firearm Assault Injury, 2010 by Urban Institute, August, 2014
  (Hospital use for firearm-assault injury is disproportionately concentrated among young males, particularly young black males, in all six study states.) See similar reports about:
  Gun Control
• Race and Prosecution in Manhattan by Vera Institute of Justice, July, 2014
  (Blacks and Latinos were particularly likely to be held in pretrial detention for misdemeanor person offenses, followed by misdemeanor drug offenses. Blacks and Latinos were also most likely to have their cases dismissed for misdemeanor drug offenses.) See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights
• California Prison Downsizing and Its Impact on Local Criminal Justice Systems by Joan Petersilia, Harvard Law & Policy Review, 2014
  "Everyone agreed county officials are working more collaboratively toward reducing recidivism, and that new funding has fostered innovative programming. But our interviews also found counties struggling...to carry out an initiative...imposed overnight." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Liberal but Not Stupid: Meeting the Promise of Downsizing Prisons by Joan Petersilia and Francis T. Cullen, Stanford Journal of Criminal Law and Policy, June, 2014
  "The issue of downsizing will also remain at the forefront of correctional discourse because of the court-ordered reduction in imprisonment in California...a 'criminology of downsizing' must be developed to foster effective policy interventions." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Prison Population Trends 2013 by Massachusetts Department of Correction, May, 2014
  "A steady decline from January 2012 to January 2014 reflects a seven percent decrease in the custody population." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System by Urban Institute, August, 2014
  "The number of prisoners age 50 or older experienced a 330 percent increase from 1994 to 2011." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Adventures in Risk: Predicting Violent and Sexual Recidivism in Sentencing Law by Arizona State Law Journal, March, 2014
  "Whatever merit actuarial assessments may have for a variety of criminal justice decisions (such as bail, probation, and parole), they are far too problematic for use in sentencing matters. " See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy
• Parsons v. Ryan, CV 12-00601: Arizona Class Action Prison Conditions Lawsuit Expert Reports by ACLU of Arizona, September, 2014
  "Every week, on average, a patient who has been neglected or mistreated dies in the Arizona prison system, according to these expert reports." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• The Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in the Lives of Juvenile Offenders by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2014
  "The top three most prevalent ACE indicators were the same for both males and females: family violence, parental separation or divorce, and household member incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Police Officer Body-Worn Cameras by Office of Justice Programs, September, 2014
  "The evaluations in Mesa and Rialto documented substantial drops in citizen complaints following deployment of the technology. The UK studies documented a similar effect." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Impact of Disproportionate Incarceration of and Violence Against Black People with Mental Health Conditions In the World's Largest Jail System by Dignity and Power Now, August, 2014
  "Nationwide, people with mental health conditions constitute 64% of the jail population, according to the Federal Bureau of Prison Statistics." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health
• Prisoners in 2013 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2014
  "On December 31, 2013, the United States held an estimated 1,574,700 persons in state and federal prisons, an increase of approximately 4,300 prisoners (0.3%) from 2012." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Profile of Inmate Population Under Custody on January 1, 1995 (New York) by State of New York Department of Correctional Services, 1995
  See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Prison and Crime: A Complex Link by Pew Public Safety Performance Project, September, 2014
  "New York and Florida had divergent imprisonment rates, but both cut crime rates by the same amount." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Criminal Victimization, 2013 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2014
  "The rate of violent crime declined slightly from 26.1 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2012 to 23.2 per 1,000 in 2013." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• The Effect of Collateral Consequence Laws on State Rates of Returns to Prison by University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, July, 2014
  "Surprisingly, these analyses give some indication that collateral consequences may be related to lower rates of returns to prison for technical violations, however future research is needed to confirm this relationship." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry

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