Dec 7, 2011
California’s annual homicide rates declined
California’s annual homicide rates declined Oakland Tribune, December 6, 2011
Blog Dec 6, 2011
Celebrating Dr. Miller’s Legacy
Over the course of 1971 to 1972 aremarkable event occurred that permanently altered conventional assumptionsabout justice administration. Jerome G Miller, then commissioner of youthcorrections in Massachusetts,systemically carried out the most sweeping reforms in correctional history. Heclosed the state’s five juvenile reform schools and transferred over 1,500youths to an assortment of community-based programs. These actions, which wereat first greeted with skepticism and derision by much…
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the closure of Massachusetts’ youth training schools; instigating a massive and sweeping juvenile justice reform effort led by Dr. Jerome Miller.
Dec 5, 2011
Counties dilemma: how to use funds for inmates
Counties dilemma: how to use funds for inmates San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 2011
How an electoral tweak is throwing California lobbyists into disarray KALW News, December 1, 2011
Jail Needs Assessment for San Mateo County: A preliminary analysis
Publications Dec 1, 2011
California’s startling youth trends: Does more “youth on the streets” mean more crime?
California’s startling youth trends: Does more “youth on the streets” mean more crime?
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…
The De-incarceration of California’s Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 30, 2011
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…
Who decides in Sacramento?
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…