Blog Dec 1, 2011
Is Wall Street a gang? Part III
As the “Occupy Wall Street” movement continues all across the country it seems to me to be increasingly important to bring to the forefront the horrific crimes perpetrated by corporations and their representatives. The extent of their criminality was partly documented in the first two parts of this series. I say “partly” for a good reason: there are more examples and the examples go back more than a hundred years. The extent of corporate crime was noted in a now classic study by Edwin…
Who decides in Sacramento?
Announcing the release of CJCJ’s latest report on California’s special interest groups and criminal justice policy, Sacramento’s K‑Street Lobbyists: The criminal justice inner circle . The investigative report authored by Senior Fellow at Demos, Sasha Abramsky includes interviews with prominent lobbyists such as John Lovell, and CCPOA’s Ryan Sherman to find out what drives criminal justice policy in California. “You build up your rolodex,” he says, “you get face and name recognition…
The De-incarceration of California’s Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 30, 2011
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend a two-day conference entitled, “Exposing Structural Racism from Within: The Power of Restorative Justice,” sponsored by the Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley. Conferences, especially those in an academic environment, usually tend to focus only on the problems, however this time I left with an overwhelmed, yet hopeful, mind. While there was plenty of theoretical discourse on how, and if, restorative justice as a model has the…