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Crime
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Sentencing Law and Policy
FBI releases national crime data reporting 2014 continued historic crime declines
Main September 28, 2015FBI releases national crime data reporting 2014 continued historic crime declinesIf there was a close causal inverse relationship between crime and nationwide sentencing and prison reforms, one…
PropertyProf Blog
Yeh on the Property Impacts of a Sex Offender Registry
Susan Yeh (George Mason) has posted Revealing the Rapist Next Door: Property Impacts of a Sex Offender Registry (International Review of Law and Economics) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:How do…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The simple truth about why mass incarceration happened”
Main September 3, 2015"The simple truth about why mass incarceration happened"The title of this post is the headline of this effective recent Vox piece by German Lopez. Here are excerpts:…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Guns, gangs, ganja, going after police … are there obvious lessons from 2015 homicide spikes?
Main September 1, 2015Guns, gangs, ganja, going after police ... are there obvious lessons from 2015 homicide spikes?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this lengthy…
Cruise Law News
New Crime Warnings for the Bahamas
By Jim Walker
"New Crime Warnings - Brits, Canadians Put Citizens on Alert" read the headlines of the Nassau Guardian yesterday. The newspaper reports that the governments of Britain and Canada issued advisories…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New research report examines impact of “Realignment” on crime in California in 2014
Main August 26, 2015New research report examines impact of "Realignment" on crime in California in 2014Via an email from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), I received news…
Cruise Law News
Nassau, Bahamas – the “Wild, Wild West”
By Jim Walker
I have written several dozen articles in the last several years about the high crime rate in Nassau. The murder rate in the Bahamas is well over 30 per 100,000…
The Right Coast
North Carolina Woman Attacked by Ax-Wielding Clown | TIME
The victim told the police in Hickory, N.C. that a person wearing a clown mask and a multicolored wig had come by her residence at 4:30 a.m. Friday morning and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Senator Paul talking about crime and punishment in Chicago
Main May 27, 2015Senator Paul talking about crime and punishment in ChicagoAs reported in this Chicago Tribune article, headlined "Rand Paul in Chicago: Crime 'not a racial thing, it is…
The Right Coast
Hostage in Florida orders pizza to get help – CNN.com
(CNN)A woman being held hostage in Florida ordered a pizza with a special request -- to send help -- potentially saving her life and the lives of her children.via www.cnn.com