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As part of its PSN initiative, funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), APPA published an online monograph to provide probation and parole agencies with information on issues to consider in decisions about proactive supervision as it relates to dealing with prohibited offenders who may possess guns.
Source: APPa |
This report identifies and describes interventions that are effective in reducing recidivism and preventing crime. The primary audience is the Colorado Commission on Criminal
and Juvenile Justice, and the primary goal of this compendium is to assist the Commission in carrying out its mission and statutory duties. These duties include investigating evidence-based recidivism reduction initiatives and cost effective crime prevention programs.
Source: Colorado Division of Criminal Justice |
Prisons and other corrections operations cost state taxpayers almost $50 billion per
year. Many offenders deserve to be locked up. But aside from society’s interest in
retribution, what are the benefits of incarceration in terms of preventing crime?
Dr. Alfred Blumstein and Dr. James Q. Wilson are two of the nation’s most respected
experts on incarceration and crime, with over 90 years of academic and policy
research between them. Both acknowledge that prisons can reduce crime by taking
offenders off the street, deterring would-be offenders, and providing rehabilitative
programs. But both also point out the limitations of prisons in achieving public
safety. Over a decade ago, Dr. Wilson observed that prison populations could
quickly reach a point of diminishing returns, past which additional inmates
would result in a reduced benefit to crime control. Similarly, Dr. Blumstein asserts
that incarceration can, in certain cases, decrease public safety if drug trafficking
and other criminal organizations recruit more dangerous replacements.
The two spoke recently with Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, an initiative
of the Pew Center on the States (PCS), about the link between incarceration and
crime, the likely outcomes of continued prison expansion, and some policies and
programs that offer better public safety results for taxpayer dollars.
Source: The PEW Center |
As correctional departments around the country
expand upon their mission of public safety to
incorporate a greater emphasis on reducing
recidivism through successful prisoner reentry,
partnerships with law enforcement agencies and community service providers have become even more critical. As recently as the 1980s, many correctional departments, including Rhode Island’s, operated as independent, somewhat mysterious and secretive entities. Information- and resource-sharing were the exception, not the norm. That has radically changed and interaction between corrections
and a host of other state, federal and local agencies has become an integral facet of daily life for professionals in jails, prisons and community corrections nationwide.
Source: American Corrections Association |
The April 2008 issue of the American Correctional Association magazine Corrections Today focuses on the benefits of multi-agency criminal justice collaborations—with several articles promoting reentry partnerships in particular. In his commentary, Justin Jones, director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and a Justice Center board member, underscores the importance of truly collaborative efforts to any reentry initiative.
Source: American Corrections Association |
This new report from the Sentencing Project documents the growth in drug arrests at the city-level between 1980 and 2003 and the role of the "war on drugs" in expanding racial disparity in the criminal justice system.
The extreme variations in arrest rates among cities raise critical questions about the effect of local policy decisions, not overall drug use rates, in driving law enforcement patterns.
Source: The Sentencing Project |
In this new Human Rights Watch report, detailed new statistics show persistent racial disparities among drug offenders sent to prison in 34 states. All of these states send black drug offenders to prison at much higher rates than whites.
Source: Human Rights Watch |
In this paper, an analysis of four powerful societal forces that are building a coming crime wave. The paper offers over 100 specific state, federal, and
local policy options that can be tailored to create a 21st century crime-fighting program.
Source: The Third Way Culture Program |
SAMHSA has developed this practical guide to successful prevention strategies. Easy-to-read content includes two-page summaries of eleven substance abuse prevention topics and a model timeline for carrying out a prevention activity.
Source: SAMHSA |
Officer fatalities rose more than 28 percent to the second highest total in nearly two decades; fatal shootings surged 33 percent, while a record 81 officers died in traffic-related incidents .
Source: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund |
This publication examines three programs--one in Texas, one in Philadelphia, and one in New York--that help inmates prepare and file prerelease applications for federal disability benefits so they can continue to receive treatment without interruption after they are released from prison or jail. (NIJ)
Source: National Institute of Justice |
The incarceration of offenders who break the rules of their probation or parole is one of the chief reasons for the rapid growth of prison and jail populations and costs. Over 230,000 parole violators were admitted to prison in 2005, accounting for more than one-third of all admissions.
Source: The PEW Center on the States |
Presents the number of persons on probation and parole at yearend 2006, by State, and compares the national totals to counts for yearend 1995 and 2000 through 2005. The report provides State-level probation and parole supervision rates at yearend 2006 and the percentage change in each population during the year. It presents probation and parole entries and exits, by State, and it provides national and State-level data on parole revocations. The Bulletin also includes a national description of the race, gender, and offense composition of these populations.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics |
The JFA Institute released Unlocking America: Why and How to Reduce America's Prison Population. The report "focuses on how we can reduce the nation's prison population without adversely affecting public safety." The authors analyze flaws in the current system and make a series of recommendations for changing the direction of that system.
Source: JFA Institute |
This report explores the relationship between mental disorders and substance abuse among young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. The report relies upon statistics gathered from 2005 and 2006 and concludes that there is evidence to suggest that the linkage between mental disorders and substance abuse disorders is bidirectional, meaning that one can cause the other and vice versa.
Source: SAMHSA |
KAP's Multi-Language Initiative (MLI) adapts KAP and other Federal Government publications for clients and the general public whose first language is not English. It addresses the unfulfilled needs for treatment products among members of non–English-speaking groups or those with limited English-language abilities. After MLI products are translated and culturally adapted, they are provided online and can be printed electronically.
Source: SAMHSA |
SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment released the new brochure Alcohol and Drug Treatment: How it Works, and How It Can Help You as a companion to Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System.
Source: SAMHSA |
This publication discusses how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.
Source: Council for State Governments Justice Center |
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