Publications Jun 18, 1997
Prioritizing Incarceration: Does San Francisco Need a Jail on Treasure Island?
An analysis of the need for a new women’s jail in San Francisco determines there is no justifiable reason to build one.
Three years after implementation of three strikes in CA; public safety results inconclusive.
Publications Feb 1, 1997
Trading Classrooms for Cell Blocks: Destructive Policies Eroding D.C. Communities
Trading Classrooms for Cell Blocks: Destructive Policies Eroding D.C. Communities
From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: A National Perspective
Making SF’s juvenile justice system work requires adopting a new organizational structure. Secure detention should be one element of a full continuum of comprehensive individualized interventions.
This study examines the realities and myths of San Francisco juvenile crime control policies in 1996.
Publications Oct 1, 1996
From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: How Prison Building Affects Higher Education & African American Enrollment in CA
From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: How Prison Building Affects Higher Education & African American Enrollment in CA
Publications Jul 16, 1996
An Analysis of Juvenile Homicides: Where They Occur and the Effectiveness do Adult Court Intervention
The rapidly developing trend of the transfer of juvenile offenders into the adult prison system at increasingly younger ages is creating increasing strain on our country’s criminal justice system.
Publications Jul 1, 1996
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Plight of Adolescent Girls in The San Francisco Juvenile Justice System
This report presents recommendations about serving the unique needs of girls in the San Francisco Juvenile Probation system.
Publications Mar 1, 1996
Three Strikes: The New Apartheid
As “get tough” stances have monopolized the debate on crime, political one-upsmanship has produced the most punitive, expensive and racially disparate criminal justice policies in the state’s history.
Publications Feb 1, 1996
Young African American and the Criminal Justice System in California: Five Years Later
Follow up on the 1990 study shows that the general plight of people of color, particualrly young black males, has deteriorated.
Sociologist Mike A. Males provides a different picture: How politicians, private interests, and the media unfairly scapegoat adolescents for America’s problems.