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Executive Director Daniel Macallair and Senior Research Fellow Mike Males investigate the validity of the Incapacitation Theory through the recent report titled The California Miracle: Drastically Reduced Youth Incarceration, Drastically Reduced Youth Crime .” This report serves as an update to a prior CJCJ publication, Testing Incapacitation Theory: Youth Crime and Incarceration in California .” Our recent analysis calls incapacitation theory into serious question. Incapacitation theory…

In September 2009, San Francisco was one of only five jurisdictions from around the nation selected as a Second Chance Act National Demonstration Project site by the United States Department of Justice, to develop and implement the Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Team (JCRT). JCRT is a collaboration between the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department, the San Francisco Superior Court, and the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, that will…

Targeting Blacks for Marijuana — Possession Arrests of African Americans in California, 2004-08 The Drug Policy Alliance, June 302010

Experts agree Hayes would have tough time getting paroled The Stockton Record, May 82010

Experts agree Hayes would have tough time getting paroled Stockton Reporter, May 82010.