Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes
Prisoners suffering from mental illness or showing its symptoms are common among criminal justice populations. The potential relationship between crime and mental illness could have important policy...
View ArticleDisparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California
Problems facing Latinos and African-American men continue to represent a nationwide social challenge. Sustained disparities in socioeconomic well-being across race and ethnicity imply that efforts must...
View ArticleRaising the Age of Juvenile Jurisdiction in North Carolina
In response to heightened perceptions of youth crime, in the 1970s a number of U.S. states passed laws allowing the prosecution of more teenagers as adults. While many such decisions were subsequently...
View ArticleU.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 Report on Criminal Alien Statistics
Estimates put the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States at more than 10 million. Debates over immigration reform commonly involve disputes over the costs and benefits of these...
View ArticleLength of Incarceration and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
Longer prison sentences, the result of public policy shifts over the past 30 years, may effectively discourage crime and repeat offenders. However, increased lengths of incarceration may have...
View ArticleMyths and Realities of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National...
Approximately 1.6 million people — nearly 1 out of every 130 Americans and about 1 out of every 20 black men — are currently incarcerated at the federal or state level in the United States. The...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice: Capital Punishment, 2010 Figures
The 1976 Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia overturned the federal moratorium against capital punishment enacted four years earlier, and the policy remains controversial 35 years later for a host...
View ArticleU.S. Incarceration and Correctional Population Levels: U.S. Justice Department
Among all nations, the United States continues to incarcerate the greatest number of individuals, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies at the University of Essex. The U.S. rate of...
View ArticleJuvenile Arrest and Collateral Educational Damage in the Transition to Adulthood
The long-term monetary gains associated with college education have been well-established, but many would-be students never enroll. Some decide to enter the workforce after completing high school; for...
View ArticlePew Report: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms
Beginning in the 1970s, U.S. states enacted increasingly harsh laws in the name of “getting tough” on crime. Drug laws were strengthened, mandatory minimum sentences established and “three strikes”...
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