Publications Dec 1, 1995
Emerging from Darkness: Reinventing San Francisco’s Juvenile Justice System
The juvenile justice system should be viewed as one element along a continuum of social institutions designed to foster social development.
This article examines the application of advocacy and case management programs in juvenile detention and their potential for resolving institutional populations.
At the cost of approximately $21,000 per year, California is spent $105 million per year to imprison shoplifters. This study examines whether it impacted crime rates.
This study shows that homicide rates are at best uneffected by capital punishent in California.
A 1995 discussion of race and the criminal justice system in America.
Publications Nov 1, 1994
Transforming California’s Prisons into Expensive Old Age Homes for Felons: Enormous Hidden Costs and Consequences for California’s Taxpayers
Given the high costs to house elderly inmates in prison, and their low likelihood of reoffending, the public safety benefits of long sentences are called into question.
Publications Oct 1, 1994
Three Strikes: The Unintended Victims
A case history project of people receiving three strikes sentences.
Publications Oct 1, 1994
The Undue Influence of California’s Prison Guards’ Union: California’s Correctional-Industrial Complex
Documenting the influence of the prison guards union on criminal justice policy in CA.
Publications Oct 1, 1994
Racial Disparities in The Charging of Los Angeles County’s Third “Strike” Cases
In 1994, African-Americans were 17 times more likely to be subject to California’s three strikes law, according to LA Public Defender data.
A follow up on a 1992 study of San Francisco’s racially disparate incarceration trends finds a city steeped in rhetoric rather than reason.
As incarceration rates in California continued to increase during the 1990’s this report debunks the perceived public safety benefit, through an international comparison.
Given that so many of the women in prison in California are driven to drug use because of poverty and abuse, the real issue before us is detention or prevention?