This new Scientific American article provides a short account by researchers about thier interesting studies on delayed justice. The article is fully headlined “Why Delays in Delivering Justice Lead to Harsher Sentencing: People want swift punishment and will even penalize perpetrators for delays outside their control,” and here are excerpts:
It occurred to us that…
Issues of crime and punishment (and drug policies) have gotten a little play in the early days of the 2024 campaign, but tonight’s scheduled GOP debate would be a high-profile opportunity for a candidate to say something notable about crime and punishment issues. In this vein, I have seen one press piece and one lengthy…
I recently received a helpful review of just some of the remarkable materials and data assembled by the Prison Policy Initiative on an array of prison- and punishment-related topics. I am pretty sure I have blogged about some or even most of these reports, but I thought it still helpful to reprint here links to…
The latest issues of Texas Monthly includes “a roundup of the many categories — both good and bad — in which Texas ranks number one. ” One notable part of the roundup is titled “When It Comes to People Behind Bars, Texas Is Way Ahead,” and here is part of the discussion (with links from…
A helpful reader made sure that I did not miss a notable Fourth Circuit ruling today in US v. Brown, No. 21-7752 (4th Cir. Aug. 16, 2023) (available here). The majority opinion for the court begins this way:
On July 30, 2014, a jury convicted Kelvin Brown on seven counts, including two counts…
The Prison Policy Initiative’s by Emily Widra has produces this notable new briefing titled “The aging prison population: Causes, costs, and consequences.” Here are some excerpts (click through for lots of helpful links and graphics):
New data from the Census Bureau reveals that the U.S. median age rose to a high of 38.9 years: an…
The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) continues its important and timely work on modern crime trends through this latest report titled “Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2023 Update.” This press release about the report provides an effective summary in its title: “Homicide, Other Violent Crimes Decline in U.S. Cities but Remain Above Pre-Pandemic…
I do not blog much about the criminal sentencing of corporations in large part because there are not that many criminal sentencings of corporations. But this press piece, headlined “Allianz US Unit Ordered to Pay $6 Billion in Securities Fraud Case,” reports on a notable one from earlier this week:
A New York judge…
In this post from early April 2023 and this follow-up post in late May, I flagged the AH Datalytics collection of homicide data from police reports in nearly 100 big cities to note that, after significant increases in homicides throughout the US in 2020 and 2021, homicide declines in 2022 were continuing into the start…
Given robust debates over the impacts of the “war on drugs” on incarceration rates and other aspects of criminal justice systems, I found fascinating this recent press piece titled “WA felony prison and jail sentences fell by 47% in 5 years. Here’s why.” I encourage folks to check out the full article which includes and…
