Criminal Justice Sentencing Policy Statement [PDF]
This policy statement, put forth by the NCCD Board of directors, is a revision of our 1992 "Statement on Criminal Sentencing." We reviewed the developments of the past 13 years and outlined NCCD's positions on issues such as mandatory minimums and the ...
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Has Revenge Become a Justification to Legitimize the Death Penalty? [PDF]
Revenge has played a role in criminal justice systems for thousands of years. From the Code of Hammurabi, to the Bible, to modern Supreme Court jurisprudence, revenge, or “getting even,” has been a consideration in how wrongdoers are punished, especially
Ryan, Jordan
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Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era [PDF]
During a post-election TV interview that aired mid-November 2016, then President-Elect Donald Trump claimed that there are millions of so-called “criminal aliens” living in the United States: “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal ...
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Justice Reinvestment in Oklahoma: Analysis and Policy Framework [PDF]
Summarizes findings from analyses of criminal justice, mental health, and substance abuse data and policy options for justice reinvestment, a data-driven strategy to contain corrections spending and reinvest part of the savings in improving public ...
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The Misplaced Trust in the DOJ\u27s Expertise on Criminal Justice Policy [PDF]
As should be clear, this is less a book review and more an in-depth exploration of a key point Professor Barkow makes in Prisoners of Politics as applied to the federal criminal justice system.
Hopwood, Shon
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Degrees of Freedom: Expanding College Opportunities - for Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Californians [PDF]
This report begins with a background on the higher education and criminal justice systems in California. This background section highlights the vocabulary and common pathways for each system, and provides a primer on California community colleges.
Debbie Mukamal +2 more
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Introduction. Understanding hate crime: research, policy and practice [PDF]
In 2013, a group of scholars from Europe and North America came together to form the International Network for Hate Studies (INHS). The key aims of the network included bridging gaps between academics and policy makers/practitioners in the field, and ...
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The Hidden Impact of a Criminal Conviction: A Brief Overview of Collateral Consequences in Alaska [PDF]
A slightly different version of this article was published in the Alaska Justice Forum: "The Hidden Impact of a Criminal Conviction: A Brief Overview of Collateral Consequences in Alaska" by Deborah Periman.
Periman, Deborah
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No Bars: Unlocking the Economic Power of the Fomerly Incarcerated [PDF]
For the 30 percent of U.S. adults with criminal records, attaining economic success after leaving prison relies on the ability to find good jobs, says a new paper released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Emily Fetsch
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Criminal Justice Systems in Europe. A cross-national quantitative analysis [PDF]
In the last years, the Crime Observatory of the University of Malaga has analysed police records on criminal activity, has also carried out several crime victims surveys in Spain and has worked on a detailed analysis of the prison system and its ...
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