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- 6.2 million people misused prescription drugs in the past month.
Gentlereaders: Alcohol use is stable over the last 70 years and drug use for the last decade declined. While it's difficult (if not impossible) to take something as complex as [More...]
- Alcohol Use Stable Over Past 70 Years
Dear readers: Alcohol use is heavily connected to violent crime; more than any other substance. The connection is unremarkable noting the frequency of alcohol consumption; the more a substance is used, [More...]
- Marijuana: People Do Incredibly Stupid Things Under the Influence
Dear Readers: The commentary below was created for the Los Angeles Times and was not on the website of the Office of National Drug Control Policy at the time of [More...]
- Crime Scene Investigations: Everything You Want to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Everything you wanted to know about crime scene investigations but were afraid to ask.
Our students are mesmerized with CSI Cleveland and all other television shows showing beautiful young people solving [More...]
- Correctional Programs Reduce Crime: Crime in America.Net
Gentlereaders: Please see an update from our previous "What Works in Corrections" where we attempt to provide an overview of evidence-based corrections programs.
This article summarizes data as to the effectiveness [More...]
- Mental Health Courts Lower Recidivism
Gentlereaders: The research continues the generally positive results from speciality courts focusing on an array of criminal justice issues like drugs, probation violations, prisoner reentry and mental health issues. There [More...]
- The Drug-Crime Connection Remains Strong. Marijuana is the Prominent Drug
Whenever we post statistics about the marijuana-crime connection, we get a ton of e-mails from disbelievers who feel that any connection is completely overblown.
The principal research for the marijuana-crime connection [More...]
- Successful Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment
Dear readers: The study continues a long line of research stating that substance abuse treatment works to reduce recidivism. Unfortunately, it's in the same unreadable style the academic community loves [More...]
- Taking a Pig and calling it a Princess:American Justice and The Economist
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The Economist is on a tear; it published endless examples in a series of articles of people going to prison for trafficking flowers or lobster tails and every [More...]
- 56 officers died in traffic-related events-the science of roadside safety
Dear readers: The issue of roadside safety is of immense importance to law enforcement and fire companies. Did you ever see the videos of police cars hit from behind by [More...]
- Bank Robberies Decrease-Nine Million Stolen-Three Percent Involve Violence
FBI Releases Bank Crime Statistics for First Quarter of 2010
During the first quarter of 2010, there were 1,183 reported violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statue, a [More...]
- Five States Have the Highest Rates for Feeling Unsafe at School: Crime in America.Net
Information released by the Centers for Disease Control-High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates the following:
Nationally, 5.0 percent of students, “Did not go to school because they felt unsafe at [More...]
- Successful offender reentry program in San Diego
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) recently released its third annual report on the San Diego Prisoner Reentry Program.
The key program components are based on best practices and include [More...]
- Rural States Have Highest Rates for Teenage Rape: Crime in America.Net
Information released by the Centers for Disease Control-High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates the following:
Nationally, 10.5 percent of girls and 4.5 percent of boys state that they were “Ever [More...]
- Are Violent Offenders Escaping the Criminal Justice System?
It always amazes us when people have inflated opinions about the capacities of the criminal justice system. Watch any evening television show about criminal investigation and you have a plethora [More...]
- Pain Reliever Abuse-More Than a Fourfold Percentage Increase
Pain Reliever Abuse-- More Than Fourfold Percentage Increase of U.S. Treatment Admissions
The percentage of admissions to state-funded substance abuse treatment programs involving pain reliever abuse increased from 2.2% in 1998 [More...]
- Prohibition was wrong, but is legalizing marijuana right?
Crime in America.Net
The Washington Post ran another insightful article by George Will maintaining that America is ready to once again legislate morality and run the life of American citizens. While [More...]
- Principal Types of Mass-Marketing Fraud and Resources for Combating Fraud
Dear Readers: The FBI issued an update (http://www.fbi.gov/publications/fraud/immfta.htm) as to mass marketing fraud. The portion presented here complies with a reader's request articulating the most "popular" frauds and the best ways [More...]
- Police Fatalities Surge 43 Percent-A Force Spread Too Thin?
Law Enforcement Fatalities Surge 43 Percent During the First Half of 2010
We were afraid this was going to happen. The question is whether police officers are simply spread too thin?
Budget cuts [More...]
- Up to 93 percent of justice system youth experienced trauma. Crime in America.Net
There are tens of millions of children in the United States that exist hungry and unsupervised; something that every member of the criminal justice system knows. See new research below [More...]
- Social Problems and Crime Control: Crime in America.Net
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Project Safe Neighborhoods annual conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 and endorsed three crime control strategies:
Law enforcement through cooperative efforts [More...]
- Attorney General Endorses Crime Control Programs: Research Cited by Crime in America.Net
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Project Safe Neighborhoods annual conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 and endorsed three crime control strategies:
Law enforcement through cooperative efforts [More...]
- Female juvenile delinquency doubled since 1985 while males rise 30 percent
The juvenile justice system exists to protect the child, not to enforce public safety. That statement alone is enough to cause consternation and confusion. There are endless stories of people [More...]
- Is DNA Funding Keeping Violent Criminals on the Street? Crime in America.Net
Many of us see violent crime in the same way we see infectious disease; something that needs to be comprehensively addressed immediately. If there was an outbreak of disease running [More...]
- So Who Killed Neighborhood Watch? Crime in America.Net
None of us are sure, but it seems to us that it was decades ago that a US Department of Justice agency produced a neighborhood watch manual. See the latest [More...]
- Appeals for Help from Friends Traveling Abroad are Frauds
I received a message from a well known and respected government employee; she was in Spain and lost all her money and needed me to send her funds as soon [More...]
- Violent offenders more likely to die in local jails
New data from the US Department of Justice provides some insight as to medical and psychological issues associated with criminal offenders. The reference to violent offenders is found on page [More...]
- 8 million households experience identity theft-31 percent increase in credit card theft-prevention resources available
Violent and property crime is down throughout America and that finding is confirmed through the National Crime Survey, see http://crimeinamerica.net/crime-rates-united-states/. But are offenders moving from street crime to identity theft? With the [More...]
- Underage Drinking Hospital Visits Nearly Double over the 4th of July Weekend
There's not much more to mention here beyond the fact that underage drinking leads a lot of young people into contact with the criminal justice system. All of us with law [More...]
- Why are states abandoning drug treatment? Crime in America.Net
Newsweek offers a compelling article stating that “Treatment for drug addiction works better and costs less than imprisonment alone. So why are states abandoning it?”
“Of the 2.3 million inmates in [More...]
- Car Stops and Violent Crime Control: Crime in America.Net
One of us was operating a government vehicle (a fancier version than most) in a high-crime area and was pulled over by the police. The officer explained that he had not [More...]
- High volume telephone calls mask fraud. Resources to fight fraud available.
Dear readers: Fraud continues to be one of our top inquiries as people struggle to defend themselves. It's almost impossible to keep up with the array of computer, phone and [More...]
- Sources for Protecting yourself from Fraud and Identity Theft: Crime in America.Net
Dear readers: We were asked by a requestor to provide reliable sources of information regarding fraud, computer crimes and privacy theft. This is the list we came up with. Please [More...]
- National State Prison Populations Decline for the First Time Since 1972
Dear readers: As predicted multiple times throughout Crime in America.Net, prison and county/city jail populations will continue to decline. State prisons and jail systems simply do not have the money to continue [More...]
- 12.3 million adults and children in forced labor, bonded labor, and forced prostitution around the world
There are times when the day-to-day toll of crime seems almost too much for many communities throughout the country. But in comparison (to the bondage numbers) there were 1,400,000 violent [More...]
- We’re not enforcing marijuana laws? Is this a surprise to anyone? Crime in America.Net
National news networks, Sarah Palin and a small town mayor are questioning arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana (see links below).
We have endless conversations on this site and [More...]
- FBI 2009 Mortgage Fraud Report “Year in Review”
There are few events in the last 20 years with a more profound potential impact on crime than mortgage fraud. There are cities and neighborhoods throughout the United States devastated by [More...]
- Public Defense Reform–Is the Money Available?
Gentlereaders: There is a newspaper article today in Washington, D.C. addressing the fact that many individuals arrested on warrants are quickly released and returned to the streets. US Department of [More...]
- Most Dangerous Cities–City and State Crime Rates–Pleasing Everyone is Hard to Do
We started Crime in America.Net for a variety of reasons from learning search engine marketing to providing material to our students. One of the lessons we’ve learned is that folks [More...]
- Seven dollars for every dollar spent–So why don’t we support drug treatment? Crime in America.Net
The federal government has long claimed that there is a seven to one benefit ratio as to substance abuse treatment; for every dollar spent, we get seven dollars in benefits.
If [More...]
- Juvenile offenders responsible for six percent of violent felonies: Crime statistics from Crime in America.Net
Part three of an analysis of “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties”
This is the final installment in a three-part series analyzing data of from “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties,” [More...]
- Jail-Based Treatment Programs Decline Significantly-Crime in America.Net
A reader wants to know of a recent example of budget cuts regarding programs for offenders. There is no systematic analysis of budget cutting on any aspect of the criminal justice [More...]
- Older felons an increasing problem for the justice system– Crime is no longer a young man’s game—Crime in America.Net
Crime Statistics from Crime in America.Net
Part two of an analysis of “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties”
A significant tenant in criminology is that people commit less crime as they get [More...]
- Most States Cutting Budgets for Corrections—USA Today Warns That More Cuts May Harm National Crime Reductions
Crime in America.Net
There are two prominent and recent items that address budget impacts on state criminal justice systems. One is “The Fiscal Survey of the States from the National Governors [More...]
- First decline in the U.S. jail population since 1982
See our analysis after the summary:
WASHINGTON – As of midyear 2009, 767,620 inmates were held in custody of county and city jail authorities, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in [More...]
- Repeat Felons Dominate the Criminal Justice System—Most Convicted Felons do not Serve Time in Prison—Part One
Crime Statistics from Crime in America.Net
In the nation’s 75 largest counties, an estimated 58,100 defendants were charged with a felony offense in one month--May of 2006. About two-thirds of these [More...]
- The Amazing Drop in American Violent Crime—Crime in America.Net
For those of us who lived and worked through the dramatic rises in crime in the 1960’s and 1970’s and the crack-cocaine era of the 1980’s, the drop in violent crime [More...]
- Women and Substance Abuse-New Federal Study
Crime in America.Net
Summary:
Women often report that stress, negative affect, and relationships precipitate initial use. In fact, women are often introduced to substance use by a significant relationship such as boyfriend, [More...]
- 200,000 children are victims off family abduction each year—new documents available to help families.
The U.S. Department of Justice reports that as many as 200,000 children are victims of family abduction each year. Although the majority of abducted children are taken not by a [More...]
- Marijuana admissions increased to 17 percent in 2008–Higher than any drug–Cocaine declines
This report presents national-level data from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) for substance abuse treatment admissions in 2008, and trend data for 1998 to 2008. The report provides information [More...]
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Gentlereaders: Alcohol use is stable over the last 70 years and drug use for the last decade declined. While it's difficult (if not impossible) to take something as complex as [More...]
Dear readers: Alcohol use is heavily connected to violent crime; more than any other substance. The connection is unremarkable noting the frequency of alcohol consumption; the more a substance is used, [More...]
Dear Readers: The commentary below was created for the Los Angeles Times and was not on the website of the Office of National Drug Control Policy at the time of [More...]
Everything you wanted to know about crime scene investigations but were afraid to ask. Our students are mesmerized with CSI Cleveland and all other television shows showing beautiful young people solving [More...]
Gentlereaders: Please see an update from our previous "What Works in Corrections" where we attempt to provide an overview of evidence-based corrections programs. This article summarizes data as to the effectiveness [More...]
Gentlereaders: The research continues the generally positive results from speciality courts focusing on an array of criminal justice issues like drugs, probation violations, prisoner reentry and mental health issues. There [More...]
Whenever we post statistics about the marijuana-crime connection, we get a ton of e-mails from disbelievers who feel that any connection is completely overblown. The principal research for the marijuana-crime connection [More...]
Dear readers: The study continues a long line of research stating that substance abuse treatment works to reduce recidivism. Unfortunately, it's in the same unreadable style the academic community loves [More...]
Crime in America.Net The Economist is on a tear; it published endless examples in a series of articles of people going to prison for trafficking flowers or lobster tails and every [More...]
Dear readers: The issue of roadside safety is of immense importance to law enforcement and fire companies. Did you ever see the videos of police cars hit from behind by [More...]
FBI Releases Bank Crime Statistics for First Quarter of 2010 During the first quarter of 2010, there were 1,183 reported violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statue, a [More...]
Information released by the Centers for Disease Control-High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates the following: Nationally, 5.0 percent of students, “Did not go to school because they felt unsafe at [More...]
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) recently released its third annual report on the San Diego Prisoner Reentry Program. The key program components are based on best practices and include [More...]
Information released by the Centers for Disease Control-High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates the following: Nationally, 10.5 percent of girls and 4.5 percent of boys state that they were “Ever [More...]
It always amazes us when people have inflated opinions about the capacities of the criminal justice system. Watch any evening television show about criminal investigation and you have a plethora [More...]
Pain Reliever Abuse-- More Than Fourfold Percentage Increase of U.S. Treatment Admissions The percentage of admissions to state-funded substance abuse treatment programs involving pain reliever abuse increased from 2.2% in 1998 [More...]
Crime in America.Net The Washington Post ran another insightful article by George Will maintaining that America is ready to once again legislate morality and run the life of American citizens. While [More...]
Dear Readers: The FBI issued an update (http://www.fbi.gov/publications/fraud/immfta.htm) as to mass marketing fraud. The portion presented here complies with a reader's request articulating the most "popular" frauds and the best ways [More...]
Law Enforcement Fatalities Surge 43 Percent During the First Half of 2010 We were afraid this was going to happen. The question is whether police officers are simply spread too thin? Budget cuts [More...]
There are tens of millions of children in the United States that exist hungry and unsupervised; something that every member of the criminal justice system knows. See new research below [More...]
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Project Safe Neighborhoods annual conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 and endorsed three crime control strategies: Law enforcement through cooperative efforts [More...]
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Project Safe Neighborhoods annual conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 and endorsed three crime control strategies: Law enforcement through cooperative efforts [More...]
The juvenile justice system exists to protect the child, not to enforce public safety. That statement alone is enough to cause consternation and confusion. There are endless stories of people [More...]
Many of us see violent crime in the same way we see infectious disease; something that needs to be comprehensively addressed immediately. If there was an outbreak of disease running [More...]
None of us are sure, but it seems to us that it was decades ago that a US Department of Justice agency produced a neighborhood watch manual. See the latest [More...]
I received a message from a well known and respected government employee; she was in Spain and lost all her money and needed me to send her funds as soon [More...]
New data from the US Department of Justice provides some insight as to medical and psychological issues associated with criminal offenders. The reference to violent offenders is found on page [More...]
Violent and property crime is down throughout America and that finding is confirmed through the National Crime Survey, see http://crimeinamerica.net/crime-rates-united-states/. But are offenders moving from street crime to identity theft? With the [More...]
There's not much more to mention here beyond the fact that underage drinking leads a lot of young people into contact with the criminal justice system. All of us with law [More...]
Newsweek offers a compelling article stating that “Treatment for drug addiction works better and costs less than imprisonment alone. So why are states abandoning it?” “Of the 2.3 million inmates in [More...]
One of us was operating a government vehicle (a fancier version than most) in a high-crime area and was pulled over by the police. The officer explained that he had not [More...]
Dear readers: Fraud continues to be one of our top inquiries as people struggle to defend themselves. It's almost impossible to keep up with the array of computer, phone and [More...]
Dear readers: We were asked by a requestor to provide reliable sources of information regarding fraud, computer crimes and privacy theft. This is the list we came up with. Please [More...]
Dear readers: As predicted multiple times throughout Crime in America.Net, prison and county/city jail populations will continue to decline. State prisons and jail systems simply do not have the money to continue [More...]
There are times when the day-to-day toll of crime seems almost too much for many communities throughout the country. But in comparison (to the bondage numbers) there were 1,400,000 violent [More...]
National news networks, Sarah Palin and a small town mayor are questioning arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana (see links below). We have endless conversations on this site and [More...]
There are few events in the last 20 years with a more profound potential impact on crime than mortgage fraud. There are cities and neighborhoods throughout the United States devastated by [More...]
Gentlereaders: There is a newspaper article today in Washington, D.C. addressing the fact that many individuals arrested on warrants are quickly released and returned to the streets. US Department of [More...]
We started Crime in America.Net for a variety of reasons from learning search engine marketing to providing material to our students. One of the lessons we’ve learned is that folks [More...]
The federal government has long claimed that there is a seven to one benefit ratio as to substance abuse treatment; for every dollar spent, we get seven dollars in benefits. If [More...]
Part three of an analysis of “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties” This is the final installment in a three-part series analyzing data of from “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties,” [More...]
A reader wants to know of a recent example of budget cuts regarding programs for offenders. There is no systematic analysis of budget cutting on any aspect of the criminal justice [More...]
Crime Statistics from Crime in America.Net Part two of an analysis of “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties” A significant tenant in criminology is that people commit less crime as they get [More...]
Crime in America.Net There are two prominent and recent items that address budget impacts on state criminal justice systems. One is “The Fiscal Survey of the States from the National Governors [More...]
See our analysis after the summary: WASHINGTON – As of midyear 2009, 767,620 inmates were held in custody of county and city jail authorities, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in [More...]
Crime Statistics from Crime in America.Net In the nation’s 75 largest counties, an estimated 58,100 defendants were charged with a felony offense in one month--May of 2006. About two-thirds of these [More...]
For those of us who lived and worked through the dramatic rises in crime in the 1960’s and 1970’s and the crack-cocaine era of the 1980’s, the drop in violent crime [More...]
Crime in America.Net Summary: Women often report that stress, negative affect, and relationships precipitate initial use. In fact, women are often introduced to substance use by a significant relationship such as boyfriend, [More...]
The U.S. Department of Justice reports that as many as 200,000 children are victims of family abduction each year. Although the majority of abducted children are taken not by a [More...]
This report presents national-level data from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) for substance abuse treatment admissions in 2008, and trend data for 1998 to 2008. The report provides information [More...]
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is involved in drug smuggling from Afghanistan. Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the president (Hamid Karzai) of Afghanistan, gets regular payments from the CIA and has for much of the past eight years. CIA is directly working with RAW to destabilize to divide and capture part of the Balochistan so they have route to smuggle drugs out of Afghanistan. This is one of the reason USA/CIA doesn’t want Pakistan to fence and mine the PAK/Afghan border.
George Bush government support CIA, Obama, Hillery all supporting CIA and RAW agent working in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This has further weaken Pakistan government and law and order situation is getting worse.
Your website is interesting. But why not communicating more on prevention?
Hi. Thanks for writing. We agree that we need to do more on crime prevention. Please see the crime prevention category on the right side of the page.
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Very interesting blog. I would definitely put you on my favorites list.
Is there a free source to get criminal records once you locate an inmate? Or am I asking in the wrong place?
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has an inmate locator service but the 50 states all have different policies. Criminal records are not offered by any government agency that we are aware of. In fact, provision of prior criminal history information (beyond sex offender registries) is considered to be illegal.
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