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

• Status Offenses: A National Survey by Coalition for Juvenile Justice SOS Project, April, 2015
  "In 2011 alone, for example, an estimated 116,200 status offense cases were petitioned to juvenile courts nationwide, with 8,800 of these cases involving secure detention." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Above the Law: An Investigation of Civil Asset Forfeiture in California by Drug Policy Alliance, April, 2015
  (Asset forfeiture abuses in California reveal the troubling extent to which law enforcement agencies have violated state and federal law.) See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Prison and The Economy
• Moving Beyond Incarceration for Women in Massachusetts: The Necessity of Bail/Pretrial Reform by Wellesley Centers for Women, March, 2015
  "Between 2012 and 2014, the number of pretrial women held in the Awaiting Trial Unit (ATU) at MCI-F increased, and overcrowding worsened." See similar reports about:
  Women
• Not Just a Ferguson Problem: How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California by Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, March, 2015
  "As a result, over four million Californians do not have valid driver's licenses because they cannot afford to pay traffic fines and fees." See similar reports about:
  Trials Community Impact
• The Processing and Treatment of Mentally Ill Persons in the Criminal Justice System: A Scan of Practice and Background Analysis by Urban Institute, March, 2015
  "An estimated 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners, and 64 percent of jail inmates have a mental health problem." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health
• U.S. Prison Population Trends: Broad Variation Among States in Recent Years by Sentencing Project, March, 2015
  "Two-thirds of states (34) have experienced at least a modest decline since 1999, while one-third (16) have had continued rises in their prison populations." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Seeing Black: Race, Crime, and Visual Processing by Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004
  "Black faces looked more criminal to police officers; the more Black, the more criminal." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Public Opinion
• Reentry and the Ties that Bind: An Examination of Social Ties, Employment, and Recidivism by Justice Quarterly, April, 2011
  "In fact, the results suggest that good quality social ties may be particularly important for men with histories of frequent unemployment." See similar reports about:
  Families Recidivism and Reentry
• In Brief: Examining the Changing Racial Composition of Three States' Prison Populations by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, March, 2015
  "In each of these cases, closer inspection of the data shows that these states experienced considerable reductions in the overall number of people being admitted to prison, and that the decline in admissions has been steepest for blacks and Hispanics." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Death Sentences and Executions 2014 by Amnesty International, March, 2015
  "The USA continued to be the only country to put people to death in the region, although executions dropped from 39 in 2013 to 35 in 2014 — reflecting a steady decline in the use of the death penalty in the country over the past years." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty International Incarceration Comparisons
• Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2012: Selected Findings by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, March, 2015
  "The juvenile offender population dropped 14% from 2010 to 2012, to the lowest number since 1975." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• National Gunfire Index by SST, March, 2015
  (All but two of the 28 cities saw reductions in their rates of gunfire.) See similar reports about:
  Gun Control Crime and Crime Rates
• NC Traffic Stops by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2015
  (Since 2000, the North Carolina Highway Patrol has been collecting data whenever a police officer stops a motorist, and since 2002, all sizable police departments in the state have done so.) See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Evidence-Based Practice to Reduce Recidivism: Implications for State Judiciaries by National Institute of Corrections, August, 2007
  "There is today an enormous body of sophisticated research proving that unlike incarceration, which actually increases offender recidivism, properly designed and operated recidivism-reduction programs can significantly reduce offender recidivism." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Emancipate the FLSA: Transform the Harsh Economic Reality of Working Inmates by Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development, 2015
  "The Article calls for the application of the FLSA to all working inmates, leading to judicial uniformity, and the redistribution of wealth from the prisons to the working inmates thereby reducing recidivism." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Labor
• The Opportunity Survey: Criminal Justice Findings by The Opportunity Agenda, March, 2015
  "Sixty percent of the American public believes that the unequal treatment of people who have served a prison sentence is a serious problem." See similar reports about:
  Public Opinion
• Alternatives to Incarceration in California by Public Policy Institute of California, April, 2015
  (The evidence suggests that the effectiveness of both incarceration and community-based supervision depends on the rate of incarceration in a community, the offender characteristics, and the response to violations during and after supervision.) See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Jail Crowding: Understanding Jail Population Dynamics by National Institute of Corrections, January, 2002
  "Three indicators are available for analysis nationally: serious crime, adult arrests, and county resident population." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Prison Crowding: The Long View, with Suggestions by Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission, March, 2011
  "That puts the prison system 31% over its rated capacity, with about 12,500 more inmates than the prisons were built to hold." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare