Highlights You, your spouse, and your children interact daily with people who have criminal histories. Acknowledging this and evaluating potentially menacing or uncomfortable situations keeps…
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Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
View More Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change
Highlights The median (average) time served in state prison for all offenses is 1.3 years. This article is available via a podcast on YouTube. Author…
View More The Average Time Served in State Prisons Is 1.3 Years
Highlights Most crimes involve reduced charges or dropped or deferred prosecutions. Concessions through plea-bargains, dropped charges, and limited prison sentences are seen as necessary to…
View More How Many Crimes Are Prosecuted In The United States?
Highlights If risk assessments of criminal offenders consistently show signs of bias, what does that mean for criminal justice reform? “There remains evidence that the…
View More Race-Criminal Justice Reform and Biased Offender Risk Assessments
Highlights Maybe it’s time for crime victims to appeal to the courts for redress and financial compensation to force their victimizers to pay a price…
View More A Crime Victim’s Right To Owning An Offender’s Name And Money
Highlights There is a new report, Probation and Parole in the United States, issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice.…
View More 65 Percent On Probation Are Felons-50 Percent Are Violent-Agent Recently Murdered
Highlights Is there a connection between prison populations, correctional supervision and crime? Based on the best available evidence from the US Department of Justice, it…
View More Correctional Supervision Decreased 23% Since 2012-Is There A Crime Connection?
Highlights Per the US Department of Justice and the US Sentencing Commission, the vast majority of rearrests for those on community supervision or parole and…
View More The Myth Of Technical Violations And Parole And Probation Arrests
Introduction A synopsis of family and community violence research that is strongly connected to those involved in violent crime. Childhood trauma can “rewire” the brain,…
View More Does Child Abuse And Family-Community Instability Cause Violent Crime?
Highlights A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. What happens to crime studies of programs when compared to the best research methods? The…
View More Does Anything Work To Reduce Crime?
Highlights Can programs help those in the community who are threatening violence or mass shootings? Can programs assist adjudicated violent offenders with mental health problems?…
View More Can The Justice System Help Violent People With Mental Health Issues?
Highlights The majority (85.7%) of individuals sentenced for an escape offense and released were rearrested during an eight-year follow-up period, which was higher than individuals…
View More Escaped Offenders Have “Extensive And Serious Criminal Histories”
Highlights The USDOJ states that they have programs that massively reduce offender recidivism (arrests and incarceration after prison). I assume that the DOJ will now…
View More Did The The DOJ Just Solve The Problem Of Massive Offender Recidivism?
Highlights More than half of females (55%, compared to 66% of males) who were serving time for a violent offense were arrested for another offense.…
View More Women Offenders-Over Half Of Violent Females Were Arrested Within 5 Years Of Release
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. The 369,200 persons admitted to state prison in 34 states had an estimated 4.2…
View More Prison Inmates-9 Prior Arrests-4 Million Total Arrests-42 Percent Had 5-10 Incarcerations
Highlights The National Institute Of Justice offers data on which incarcerated groups have the highest rates of recidivism (i.e. arrests and incarcerations). We were…
View More Judging Future Criminality Through Risk Assessments-USDOJ
Highlights Data from Pew is combined with previous research indicating the complexity of mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders in the justice system and…
View More Adults Reporting Mental Illness And Substance Abuse Were Far More Likely To Be Arrested
Highlights Total incarcerations of people on parole and probation have decreased (see conclusions). Are we taking greater chances with decreases in the incarceration of violent…
View More Parole And Probation Totals Plummet Along With Incarcerations
HighlightsMost offenders were employed before their latest incarceration. ChatGPT (the new artificial intelligence website) offers the following, “Overall, employment can make a significant difference in…
View More Employment And Crime-Do Jobs Prevent Or Deter Incarcerations?