Observations Electronic monitoring data on reductions of technical violations and returns to prison indicate the possibility of a more effective and humane way to…
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Category: What Works-Corrections
Offender Recidivism: What Works-What’s Hogwash
Subtitle We may be making progress as to reducing recidivism in the United States. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national…
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What is Jeff Sessions’ Project Exile? Is it Effective?
Observations Is Project Exile Donald Trump’s and Jeff Sessions’ primary anti-violence effort? Launched in 1997 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, homicides in Richmond exhibited…
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Do Longer Prison Sentences Reduce Recidivism? Federal Drug Trafficking Recidivism is Much Lower Than State Returns
Observations A new report from the United States Sentencing Commission examines a group of 10,888 federal drug trafficking offenders released from US prisons and…
View More Do Longer Prison Sentences Reduce Recidivism? Federal Drug Trafficking Recidivism is Much Lower Than State ReturnsVirginia’s Record Low Recidivism-Nobel Worthy or Shell Game?
Subtitles Virginia claims to have the lowest rate of returns to prison in the country. Virginia maintains a re-incarceration rate of 23.4 percent after three…
View More Virginia’s Record Low Recidivism-Nobel Worthy or Shell Game?“Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?”
Subtitles Do offender rehabilitation programs significantly reduce crime? Fifth in a series of articles on parole and probation research and practice. If swift but certain…
View More “Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?”GPS, Satellite Tracking, Electronic Monitoring and Criminal Offenders
Subtitles Is there hope for the future of community supervision? GPS tracking may be one of two programs that offer an effective strategy for monitoring…
View More GPS, Satellite Tracking, Electronic Monitoring and Criminal OffendersSome Offenders Believe That Justice Reforms Are BS
Subtitles: Are we playing a game of meaningless gestures? Is Ban the Box pointless? Is voting a hollow gesture? Offenders, criminals or justice-involved individuals; are…
View More Some Offenders Believe That Justice Reforms Are BSAdvocates: Tell Us Who Belongs in Prison
Subtitles: Is the Door is Closing on the Criminal Justice Reform Movement? What Do Americans Want Regarding Prison Policy? What do Americans Want from Cops?…
View More Advocates: Tell Us Who Belongs in PrisonWhat Do Cops Want from Parole and Probation?
What Do Cops Want from Parole and Probation? By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies.…
View More What Do Cops Want from Parole and Probation?College Educations in Prison: Misleading the Public?-Updated/Corrected
College Educations in Prison: Misleading the Public?-Updated/Corrected We strongly support programs in prison that offer a chance to end the monstrously high rate of return…
View More College Educations in Prison: Misleading the Public?-Updated/CorrectedDo Mental Health Courts Work?
Adult Mental Health Courts Receive Mixed Ratings Adult Mental Health Courts are specialized, treatment-oriented, problem-solving courts that divert mentally ill offenders away from the criminal…
View More Do Mental Health Courts Work?The Best Resource for Crime-Related Research-CrimeSolutions.Gov
Requesters repeatedly ask for the best source of criminological evaluations on a variety of crime-related issues and the answer is CrimeSolutions.Gov. Please watch the attached…
View More The Best Resource for Crime-Related Research-CrimeSolutions.GovJuvenile Crime Prevention Programs that Save Tax Dollars
Crime in America We maintain that the best data on what works within adult and juvenile justice comes from the federal government and the Washington…
View More Juvenile Crime Prevention Programs that Save Tax DollarsCorrectional Programs Reduce Crime-Update-Two New Programs Offered
Crime in America.Net Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered…
View More Correctional Programs Reduce Crime-Update-Two New Programs OfferedShould we send offenders back to prison for technical violations?
Our little secret; Governors don’t want them back. Your opinions wanted. Crime in America.Net You can tell when it’s time for term papers in college; we…
View More Should we send offenders back to prison for technical violations?Is criminal history related to future criminality?
Crime in America.Net Dear readers: A student asks if recidivism (an offender’s return to prison or higher sanctions) is connected to criminal history. She is…
View More Is criminal history related to future criminality?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…
View More Mental Health Courts Lower RecidivismSuccessful 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…
View More Successful Prison-Based Substance Abuse TreatmentSuccessful 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…
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