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How realignment” will change criminal justice in California KALW News, September 62011

Banning Youths From Streets May Make Us Less Safe: Mike Males Bloomberg Businessweek, August 312011

In my last two CA Policy blogs I discussed successful marketing strategies employed by special interest groups to thwart criminal justice policy reform. The two propositions I depicted as examples, involved sophisticated use of rhetoric and multimedia visibility. Both Proposition 66 and Proposition 5 were opposed by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), whose influential role in the opposition campaigns is documented in CJCJ’s CCPOA Information Sheet . Here’s a…

Realignment is upon us. How will you respond? 

More juveniles in Santa Cruz County tried as adults than state average San Jose Mercury News, August 302011