PPI Research Clearinghouse crosses 1,700-entry mark!

We started the Prison Policy Initiative Research Clearinghouse more than ten years ago to keep track of the latest empirical research on criminal justice policy. Today, it includes more than 1,700 entries on topics ranging from gun control, to racial disparities, and from the death penalty to policing practices.

Here are the 33 newest entries:

• The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases At Enormous Costs to All
  by Death Penalty Information Center, October, 2013
  "All of the state executions since the death penalty was reinstated stem from cases in just 15% of the counties in the U.S. All of the 3,125 inmates on death row as of January 1, 2013 came from just 20% of the counties."
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  Death Penalty
• Report of the Sentencing Project to the UN Human Rights Committee Regarding Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System
  by The Sentencing Project, August, 2013
  "If current trends continue, one of every three black American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime, as can one of every six Latino males, compared to one of every seventeen white males."
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  Civil Rights
• Technology, Teen Dating, Violence and Abuse, and Bullying
  by Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center, August, 2013
  "26% of youth in a relationship said they experienced some form of cyber dating abuse victimization in the prior year. Females were twice as likely as males to report being a victim of sexual cyber dating abuse in the prior year."
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  Juveniles Crime and Crime Rates
• The Alabama Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Alabama's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, June, 2006
  "...the State of Alabama does not require that an indigent individual charged with or convicted of a capital felony be appointed counsel and provided with resources for experts and investigators at every stage of the proceedings."
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  Death Penalty
• The Arizona Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Arizona's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, June, 2006
  "The State of Arizona provides only one to two percent of the funding for the cost of capital representation, significantly underfunding these indigent defense services."
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  Death Penalty
• The Florida Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Florida's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, September, 2006
  "Since 1973, the State of Florida has exonerated twenty-two death-row inmates, which is more than any other state in the nation."
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  Death Penalty
• The Georgia Death Penalty Report An Analysis of Georgia's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, January, 2006
  "...as of August 1998, fifty-five of the 119 inmates on Georgia's death row were black and of the 88 persons awaiting death penalty trial, 53 were black males, 26 were white males, 2 were black females, 4 were white females, and 3 were Hispanic males."
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  Death Penalty
• The Indiana Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Indiana's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, February, 2007
  "...white offenders received harsher sentences for murder than offenders belonging to racial or ethnic minority groups"
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  Death Penalty
• The Kentucky Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Kentucky's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, December, 2011
  "Kentucky does not require the accreditation of its forensic laboratories, MEO, or any of the 120 county coroner offices."
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  Death Penalty
• Life Goes On: The Historic Rise in Life Sentences in America
  by Sentencing Project, September, 2013
  "As of 2012, there were 159,520 people serving life sentences, an 11.8% rise since 2008."
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  Sentencing Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• The Missouri Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Missouri's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, April, 2012
  "Of those sixty-eight inmates who were executed...Fifty-two ...were sentenced to death for murdering a white victim, while sixteen were sentenced to death for murdering an African-American victim."
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  Death Penalty
• The Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Ohio's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, September, 2007
  "...the chances of a death sentence in Hamilton County are 2.7 times higher than in the rest of the state, 3.7 times higher than in Cuyahoga County, and 6.2 times higher than in Franklin County."
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  Death Penalty
• The Pennsylvania Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Pennsylvania's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, October, 2007
  "The study found that defendants were more than twice as likely to receive the death penalty when the jury was composed of six or more white male jurors..."
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  Death Penalty
• The Tennessee Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Tennessee's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, March, 2007
  "Often, however, jury instructions are poorly written and poorly conveyed, which confuses jurors about the applicable law and the extent of their responsibilities."
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  Death Penalty
• The Texas Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Texas's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, September, 2013
  "...since 1992, Texas has paid over $60 million to those it has wrongfully imprisoned..."
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  Death Penalty
• Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and "Low-Crime Taxes" Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations
  by In the Public Interest, September, 2013
  "Essentially, the state would have to guarantee that its prison would be 90 percent filled for the next 20 years (a quota), or pay the company for unused prison beds if the number of inmates dipped below 90 percent capacity at any point..."
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  Prison Privatization Prison and The Economy
• 2001 Court Commitments to the Massachusetts Department of Correction
  by Massachusetts Department of Correction, March, 2003
  "Inmates were committed in 2001 for the following offense groups: Person (31%), Drug (31%), Property (16%), "Other" (15%), Sex (7%)."
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  Crime and Crime Rates
• Administrative Investigation The facts and circumstances surrounding the events, which Inmate John Geoghan's death on August 23, 2003
  by Massachusetts Administrative Investigation Panel, 2003
  "...the known ability of inmates to prevent staff from opening the cell doors in SBCC... also played a role."
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  Prison Procedures
• Realigning the Revolving Door: An Analysis of California Counties' AB 109 2011-2012 Implementation Plans
  by Stanford Law School Criminal Justice Center, September, 2013
  "Sheriff's departments were allocated the largest amount of funding at $125,655,502, or 34.9 percent of all expenditure."
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  Jails Prison and The Economy
• State Spending for Corrections: Long-Term Trends and Recent Criminal Justice Policy Reforms
  by National Association of State Budget Officers, September, 2013
  "State spending for corrections reached $52.4 billion in fiscal 2012 and has been higher than 7.0 percent of overall general fund expenditures every year since fiscal 2008."
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  Prison and The Economy
• Coming of Age with Stop and Frisk: Experiences, Perceptions, and Public Safety Implications
  by Vera Institute of Justice, September, 2013
  "Young people who have been stopped more often are less willing to report crimes, even when they are the victims. Each additional stop in the span of a year is associated with an 8% drop in the person's likelihood of reporting a violent crime."
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  Police Juveniles
• Police Behavior during Traffic and Street Stops, 2011
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2013
  "Of those involved in traffic and street stops, a smaller percentage of blacks than whites believed the police behaved properly during the stop."
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  Police Public Opinion
• Requests for Police Assistance, 2011
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2013
  "An estimated 1 in 8 U.S. residents age 16 or older, or 31.4 million persons, requested assistance from police at least once, most commonly to report a crime, suspicious activity, or neighborhood disturbance."
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  Police Public Opinion
• Colorado Department of Corrections Administrative Segregation and Classification Review
  by National Institute of Corrections, October, 2011
  "Currently about 7% (1,427) of the prison population is in administrative segregation, which is significantly above the national average of 1-2 %."
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  Prison Procedures Mental Health
• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2011 Homicide Data
  by Violence Policy Center, September, 2013
  "For homicides in which the victim to offender relationship could be identified, 94 percent of female victims (1,509 out of 1,601) were murdered by a male they knew."
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  Crime and Crime Rates Women
• Are Immigration Detainer Practices Rational?
  by Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, September, 2013
  "According to these data, an undocumented foreign national with a traffic offense is more likely to be booked into ICE detention than one with a homicide, forcible rape, robbery, or aggravated assault offense."
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  Immigration Detainees Pretrial Detention
• Democracy Imprisoned A Review of the Prevalence and Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States
  by The Sentencing Project et al., September, 2013
  "In three states, at least one out of every five African- American adults is disenfranchised: Florida (23%), Kentucky (22%), and Virginia (20%)."
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  Felon Disenfranchisement
• Changing Course Preventing Gang Membership
  by U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013
  "The complex interplay between poverty, competition over scarce resources and crime creates environments that are conducive to the formation of gangs and their attractiveness to youth."
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  Juveniles
• An Epidemic of Prosecutor Misconduct
  by Center for Prosecutor Integrity, 2013
  "An analysis by the Northern California Innocence Project found out of 707 cases of court-identified misconduct, only six prosecutors (fewer than 1%) were disciplined by the State Bar."
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  Trials
• The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the US 1981-2010
  by American Journal of Public Health, September, 2013
  "..we found that states with higher levels of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides."
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  Gun Control
• Prisoner Reentry Experiences of Adult Males Characteristics, Service Receipt, and Outcome of Participants in the SVORI Multi-Site Evaluation
  by Pamela K. Lattimore, Danielle M. Steffey, Christy A. Visher, September, 2009
  "SVORI program participation greatly increased the likelihood of receiving a wide range of services, but levels of participation were less than reported needs."
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  Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry
• More Prisoners Versus More Crime is the Wrong Question
  by Brookings, 2013
  "...America's current approach to crime control is woefully inefficient. Much greater crime control could be achieved at lower human and financial cost."
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  Crime and Crime Rates
• Turning the Corner on Mass Incarceration?
  by Georgetown University Law Center, 2011
  "Criminal justice policies and practices are largely determined at the state and local levels, and practices vary widely among the states and even among cities, towns, and counties within a single state."
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  Crime and Crime Rates

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