Jul 21, 2010
New Report Released: “The California Miracle”
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…
Jul 21, 2010
CJCJ co-hosts the Correctional Crisis Conference
In June 2010 the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice entered into a unique partnership with the California Correctional Peace Officer’s Association by co-hosting the Correctional Crisis Conference. This collaborative effort convenes California’s leading correctional experts and stakeholders from the entire spectrum of the criminal justice system. The goal of the roundtable discussions is to develop a set of policy recommendations for the gubernatorial candidates that will elevate the…
Blog Jul 21, 2010
Building a new consensus on California prison policy
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association are co-hosting an unprecedented series of policy discussions in Sacramento with some of the state’s leading correctional experts to help forge a consensus on future corrections policy. With the continued deterioration of conditions in the state’s prisons, a new urgency has emerged that is bringing together a new coalition of groups and individuals to work with state leaders to address…
Blog Jul 12, 2010
Let Our Kids Shoot Back
Let Our Kids Shoot Back! Recent sweeping affirmations by the U.S. Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago (2010), that “the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of… individual self-defense” as “a basic right” means gun possession by children and youths must be legalized immediately. Given the expansion of laws easing more widespread ownership of guns by adults and Court decisions forbidding lawmakers from infringing…
Blog Jul 12, 2010
BP Oil — The Plot (and oil) Thickens
Is there any end in sight to this criminal act? My previous blog focused on the fact that this was a case begging for a criminal indictment. I neglected to mention the fact that BP Oil, along with the entire oil industry, has figured out methods of living off the public dole. As reported in the New York Times recently the platform were the oil rig was sitting on is owned by a company called Transocean a company that had moved its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Cayman…
Recently, the Department of Juvenile Facilities (formerly known as the California Youth Authority) claimed to be in 85% compliance with the consent decree under the Farrell litigation. This percentage cultivates a skewed perception of the state youth correctional facility’s progress towards reforming into a rehabilitative environment. In April 2010, CJCJ’s Executive Director Daniel Macallair highlighted this issue in the California Progress Report . As DJF touts its progress it is important…
Blog Jul 3, 2010
BP Oil Spill — Where’s the Arrest?
Where is the arrest warrant? Where is the indictment? An ordinary economic crime — burglary, auto theft — gets immediate attention, cops putting handcuffs on suspects, booking at the local jail, an appearance in court. A crime of the magnitude as the gulf oil spill gets apologies, explanations, excuses, etc. along with checks for those who have lost homes and businesses, jobs, etc. But 11 people died and at least 17 have been reported injured. And the costs keep increasing. One …
Publications Jul 1, 2010
The California Miracle: Drastically Reduced Youth Incarceration, Drastically Reduced Youth Crime
The California Miracle: Drastically Reduced Youth Incarceration, Drastically Reduced Youth Crime
Jun 30, 2010
Targeting Blacks for Marijuana — Possession Arrests of African Americans in California, 2004-08
Targeting Blacks for Marijuana — Possession Arrests of African Americans in California, 2004-08 The Drug Policy Alliance, June 30, 2010
(ISSN 1530 – 3012) From the editor Toward A More Policy-Relevant National Drug Control Strategy Online Harassment and Victimization of College Students My Mother, My Hero: A personal reflection on domestic violence Attitudes Towards Megan’s Law and Juvenile Sex Offenders “Don’t Worry, It’s Just a Tool”: Enacting Selectively Enforced Laws Such as Curfew Laws Targeting Only the Bad Guys From the editor By Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. and Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D. From the…
Blog May 27, 2010
But We NEED Scapegoats!
Isn’t “Jew violence” a terrible plague? Dave “Son of Sam” Berkowitz whose serial slaughter terrorized New York City, or Joel and Hannah Steinberg’s brutal child murder? Or the “Moslem violence” that killed 3,000 on 9⁄11? The “Latino Violence” and “African Violence” that cause two-thirds of California’s homicides, robberies, and assaults? Shouldn’t we stand up to the “Christian violence” that occurs every time a Protestant or Catholic commits a brutality? “Queer violence”? What… you find…
Blog May 19, 2010
Fabricating Arizona’s “Immigrant Crime Wave”
Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly (among others, including prominent Republicans such as Sarah Palin) has repeatedly blamed Arizona’s “500,000 illegal aliens” for (in O’Reilly’s words) bringing a crime wave in Arizona, particularly Phoenix, that is “overwhelming… dangerous… through the roof,” creating social chaos” so “desperate” and “dangerous,” that the state had to impose its draconian immigration crackdown law (Fox News reports of May 3, 4, 6, 13, and 14). “Arizona had to do…