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Crime
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Health Law Prof Blog
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Prison Downsizing, and Crime
Charis E. Kubrin (University of California, Irvine), Bradley Bartos (University of California, Irvine), The COVID-19 Pandemic, Prison Downsizing, and Crime Trends, J. of Contemp. Crim. Just. (2023):California has fundamentally reformed…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The latest encouraging violent crime data … and differing takes on US crime realities
This past Friday, the Major Cities Chiefs Association released this accounting of violent crime for the first quarter on 2024 based on surveys of 68 cities in the US. These…
ImmigrationProf Blog
What Crime Data Says About the Effects of Texas Busing Migrants
The social science data is one-sided, finding that immigration does not lead to an increase in crime. However, immigrants often have been blamed for crime, including by New York City…
Cannabis
Lots and lots of weekend reads on lots and lots of different topics
Another weekend leads me to realize that a bunch of notable pieces have caught my eye, and yet I will not have time to blog about them in any detail. …
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
The Curmudgeon of Rivington Street
In the early 1990s, Pierson Tyler-Leonard found solace in a rundown walk-up on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side of New York City. He first shared the apartment with…
The Right Coast
Crime and History | City Journal
About 40 years ago, Michael Janofsky, a Miami-based newspaper reporter, was applying for a job at the New York Times. His final interview was with Abe Rosenthal, the paper s…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis brawl over crime, immigration, schools and everything else
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and California Governor Gavin Newsom sparred (and here) in a debate of sorts last night. Among other topics, crime, immigration, and comparative out-migration from Florida…
Health Law Prof Blog
The Dark Side of Automation: Robot and Crime
Shiying Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Peng Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), The Dark Side of Automation: Robot and Crime (2023):This study presents the first empirical evidence on the…
The Right Coast
Gangs, Corruption and Collapse: The Slow and Steady Demise of South Africa – DER SPIEGEL
Three decades have passed since the end of Apartheid and the widely celebrated introduction of democracy in South Africa. Three decades since Nelson Mandela s vision of a rainbow nation,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policy on Crime in Mexico
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsImmigrationProf blogger Austin Kocher writes about a new report released this week by InSight Crime that argues that restrictive border policies since the 1990s have contributed to the growth…