CJCJ researches the root causes of crime and other social issues. We examine broader social conditions such as poverty, racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities. Our work promotes policies that address these causes. This creates a healthy and equitable society for all. History has repeatedly demonstrated that incarceration is not a sustainable, long-term solution to public safety. Here are CJCJ’s research findings on legislation aimed to influence incarceration, community safety, and public policy.
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Publications Dec 1, 1993
From Beyond Shelter To Behind Bars
A study of San Francisco’s practice of policing homelessness. Our Officers and Deputies are highly trained individuals, but they can not be expected to protect us from poverty.
Examination of corrections in CA concludes, “we starve programs which could have an impact on crime in order to pour money into a bloated imprisonment program which cannot work.”
This report compares the incarceration rates of African American males in San Francisco to those of African American males in the United States overall and black males in South Africa.
San Francisco’s fiscal decisions in the 1990’s made trade offs between needed social services and jail construction.