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Immigration Detainer Requests for Low Priority Marijuana Arrests: Aug 29, 2013; Fact Sheet on ICE hold requests for people with marijuana convictions in California, Oct. 2009 to Feb. 2013.
Jail Population Management Strategies in a Post-Realignment Era: Aug 27, 2013; This fact sheet lists four available deliberate interventions that counties can employ to alleviate jail bed space and improve public safety outcomes.
The Unnecessary Detention of Undocumented Youth: Aug 19, 2013; Fact Sheet on law enforcement responses to ICE hold requests for youth in California, Oct. 2009 to Feb. 2013.
Why the Gigantic, Decades-Long Drop in Black Youth Crime Threatens Major Interests: Mike Males, Aug 15, 2013; How can such an encouraging development as a massive drop in youth crime be treated as such bad news that no one will even talk about it? It's worse than that: politicians, crime lobbies, and the…
Mr. President (and Bill O’Reilly): How Did Trayvon Martin “Mess Up”?: Mike Males, Aug 12, 2013; Statistical bigotry is just bigotry. Though selectively applied to create fear toward young black men, it can be used to stigmatize any group in society, as illustrated here.
Exclusion from the ACA heightens punishments for undocumented immigrants: Annalee Neukam, Aug 1, 2013; While the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is an exciting step in our society’s health care reform, its exclusion of undocumented immigrants will only further highlight the…
The Color-Line in American Criminal Justice: Brian Goldstein, Jul 18, 2013; W.E.B. Du Bois famously declared in his 1903 work, On the Souls of Black Folk , “for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line”. Issues of race remain highly…
Hope for a healthier criminal justice system: Annalee Neukam, Jul 11, 2013; With the implementation of the United States' first national health care system quickly approaching , the Affodable Care Act's effects will soon be seen throughout the country.
A Closer Look at the Aging Prison Population: Shanthi Rajagopalan, Jul 2, 2013; The number of aging state and federal inmates is rising. Between 1981 and 2010, the number of inmates age 55 and older increased from 8,853 to 124,900.
Raising Victims' Voices: Lizzie Buchen, Jun 6, 2013; Common wisdom says crime victims favor harsh and punitive criminal justice policies. A new survey of victims shows otherwise.
OP-ED: Opening Our Eyes to Uncomfortable Truths: May 24, 2013; ...when we take into account the level of poverty, kids don’t commit crimes at a higher rate than adults. Take a few seconds and read the previous sentence again.
Youth Gangs in the Twenty-First Century: Back to the Future, Part II: Randall Shelden, Ph.D., May 16, 2013; This is the second in a series of blogs adapted from the 4th edition of Youth Gangs in American Society by Shelden along with Sharon Tracy and William Brown (Cengage, 2013).
Youth Gangs in the Twenty-First Century: Back to the Future: Randall Shelden, Ph.D., May 14, 2013; This is the first in a series of blogs adapted from the 4th edition of Youth Gangs in American Society by Shelden along with Sharon Tracy and William Brown (Cengage, 2013).
America is Ranked 29th in Child Well-Being: Randall Shelden, Ph.D., May 6, 2013; A review of the UNICEF Report on Child Well-being shows the U.S. is near the bottom of the list across every dimension: poverty, health and safety, education, behaviors/risk, and housing/environment.
Meanness and Violence: Randall Shelden, Ph.D., May 6, 2013; A colleague and I were talking the other day about how much violence there is in American society. We both admitted that the extent of violence in America exceeded by far every other industrialized…
Underaged & Suppressed?: May 3, 2013; Mike Males asserts that young people are politically vulnerable and scapegoated when it comes to gun control laws. Listen to the discussion on HuffPost Live.
OP-ED: The Gun Debate, Round 2: Let’s Learn From Young People, Not Demonize Them: May 1, 2013; "Bad information breeds expedient, ineffective policy, as exemplified by the administration’s surviving gun initiatives..."
212: A Modern History of Youth Bashing – With Mike Males: Apr 27, 2013; Author, sociologist and outspoken youth advocate Mike Males s hares his insights on the social, political and cultural problem of blaming, shaming and framing youth.
Boston Bombings: Randall Shelden, Apr 23, 2013; It has now been more than a week since the dramatic event that came at the end of the annual Boston Marathon. What concerns me the most is the media coverage and what many would call an overreaction…
Gangs taking to the suburbs, including Albemarle: Mar 30, 2013; Treating people who come from places where gangs proliferate as gang members themselves only perpetuates the cycle, Maccallair said.
Radio Smart Talk: School Safety: Mar 26, 2013; What Sandy Hook [-] did was shine a spotlight on school safety.
The rich get richer while everyone else struggles: Randall Shelden, Mar 26, 2013; A couple of interesting news stories appeared today in the Los Angeles Times. The first one is titled “Forbes' tally of billionaires jumps 16%; Buffett drops in list.” The second is…
Debtor's prisons alive and well: Randall Shelden, Mar 21, 2013; As I have written before jails have been largely reserved for the poor and at one time in history words like jails and poorhouses (along with workhouses and prisons) were used interchangeably.
Part IV: Trends in Girls' Crime: Randall Shelden, Mar 5, 2013; This is the last of my four part blog series on girls and juvenile justice. Part I provided an overview of the most recent information, Part II discussed the prevalence of histories of sexual abuse…
Part III: Trends in girls' crime: Randall Shelden, Feb 26, 2013; It was noted in part II of this series that girls who run away from home are often doing so because of sexual abuse at home. As reported in the New York Times an estimated 1.6 million juveniles…