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Does arresting juveniles deter or promote future offending, and how does it affect the chances of future arrests? These questions were studied through official arrest data and self-reported offending data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, using propensity score methods. First arrests increased subsequent offending and subsequent arrest through separate processes, and the effects on rearrest were substantially larger. Being labelled as an arrestee seems to… Read More
Paroling authorities play a critical role within correctional systems across the nation. They make thousands of decisions a year about the timing of release from prison for a significant number of offenders each year, set conditions of release and respond to violations of post-release supervision for many thousands more, and serve as important partners in contributing to public safety and the wise use of resources.
In 2009, San Francisco opened a community court, the Community Justice Center (CJC), to serve the Tenderloin and adjacent neighborhoods, a traditionally high-crime area. Community courts are expressly oriented toward improving outcomes for offenders by addressing factors often linked to criminal behavior (by incorporating access to treatment and services within the criminal case management process); they also emphasize ties to a specific neighborhood.
The arrest of a parent can have a significant impact on a child whether or not the child is present at the time of the arrest. Depending on age and quality of the relationship with the parent, children may feel shock, immense fear, anxiety, or anger towards the arresting officers or law enforcement in general.
To maintain the public safety gains of the past 20 years and the vastly improved relationships between police and the communities they serve, citizens will have to play an increasing role in sustaining and building on past crime reduction and crime prevention successes. Police foundations assist not only large but also small and medium police departments across the nation by engaging business leaders in community policing, providing extra-budgetary support for innovative law enforcement… Read More
This publication offers ten recommendations that will help executives support homicide investigations, investigators, and the communities they serve. The publication focuses on the administrative environment necessary to support successful homicide investigation outcomes and underscores the need to look beyond clearance rates to offer a starting point for executives to extend their investigations, investigators, and their communities.
This is one in a series of papers that will be published as a result of the Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety. This paper is about how American policing has slowly drifted away from Plato’s vision of guardians and Socrates’ view of guardian education as expressed in Plato’s Republic. This view of guardian education is humanistic. It takes shape through criminal justice education that is not only vocational but also stresses ethics, theory and the nature of virtue.
Over the last several years, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) has faced cases of criminal misconduct by police officers, including sexual assaults of women by on-duty officers.
The latest report in the Police Executive Research Forum's Critical Issues in Policing Series is about the various experiences of police chiefs in handling the incidents that they consider the toughest challenges they ever faced. This report is also about a national “defining moment” affecting police departments nationwide—namely, the police response to demonstrations and protests following the officer-involved shooting of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri.
This report presents results from a randomized field experiment with license plate recognition (LPR) technology conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum and the Mesa, Arizona Police Department (MPD) to target the problem of auto theft. The experiment sought to determine whether and to what extent LPR use improves the ability of police to recover stolen cars, apprehend auto thieves, and deter auto theft.
