Policy Center

The Recession’s Impact on Crime and Especially Children

The current economic crisis has already had an impact on the crime problem.  Cases of reported runaway youth have been rising, stemming directly from the current crisis.  Many states have been

Abusing Kids at Home

It has often been said that schools are the safest place for kids and that the most dangerous place for kids is inside their own homes.  The most recent data on child victims

DJF Mental Health Experts Resign

On August 2, 2010, the court in the Farrell litigation concluded that Dr. Eric Trupin and Dr. Terry Lee have resigned from their positions as Mental Health experts in the case.   This is compelling news for followers of DJF reform efforts.

 

Category: Public Policy

Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Panic Masks a White Drug Abuse Crisis

What does a drug abuse epidemic have to do with angry political attacks against immigrants and minorities? Everything, concludes a new CJCJ study detailing key facts so far missing from debate over Arizona’s draconian anti-immigrant law.

 

Category: Public Policy

Ventura: Overcrowded and Understaffed

Current information available on the DJF creates concern in regard to the level of rehabilitative care provided in Ventura Youth Correctional Facility.  In the Fifteenth Special Master Report, filed July 13, 2010, experts identified that DJF is experiencing several obstacles to reform resulting from the State’s fiscal cris

A New Responsible CCPOA

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) has long been seen as the primary villain responsible for the disastrous state of the California prison system.  During the late 1980s and 1990s while under the leadership of Don Novey, the CCPOA argued, advocated, and spent enormous amount of its resources to intimidate lawmakers to support harsher sentencing laws and prison expan

Category: Public Policy

Marijuana: California’s Black “Criminal (In)justice System”

Two provocative papers issued by CJCJ this month find that despite racial progress in other areas, American authorities’ historical campaign to associate taboo drugs, particularly marijuana, with “Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos,” and other minorities (U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics Harry Anslinger, 1936) remains powerful in 2010.

Category: Drug Policy

Building a new consensus on California prison policy

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association are co-hosting an unprecedented series of policy discussions in Sacramento with some of the state’s leading correctional experts to help forge a consensus on future corrections policy.  With the continued deterioration of conditions in the state’s prisons, a new urgency has emerged

Category: Public Policy

Let Our Kids Shoot Back

Let Our Kids Shoot Back!

Category: Public Policy

BP Oil - The Plot (and oil) Thickens

 

Category: Public Policy