Youth Incarceration The United States is unlike most other countries with the death penalty whichhave abolished it for Furthermore, incarceration does not prevent crime. http://www.tf.org/tf/featured/5-21-04youthincarceration.html
Extractions: Dan Macallair of CJCJ on the Current State and Future of Juvenile Justice The 31,000 member California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) is the second-largest state employees union in California, and arguably the most influential lobby group in the state...the union spends $7 million each year supporting political causes .A Closer Look: Prison Union's Influence on Budget in Question...The Daily Bruin, Richard Clough, 5/12/04 The CCPOA has been able to get 'huge contracts' in a state budget with a 'limited amount of resources,' which can detract from the funds allocated to other groups....that's a detriment to public education.
Extractions: Prisons in America More on This Story: Select One Salim Muwakkil Prison Stats Election 2004 Full Archive Previous Page Stats and Facts Some startling new statistics may bring the issue of America's prison population into the 2004 campaign. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has projected that if current trends continue, one out of every three African American men born in 2001 will go to prison at some point during their lifetime. In addition the Justice Policy Institute has just released a study which shows that prison spending has increased five times as fast as education spending in some battleground states. And, according to the study: "Outside the swing states, states leaning Republican saw their incarceration rates increase at nearly twice the rate of Democrat-leaning states." In addition the Institute estimates, nearly 2 million voters are disenfranchised in swing states because they have felony records. Find out more about Life After Prison on NOW. Prisons are big in the United States. There are more people behind bars literally, and proportionally, than any time in our history. We have a higher percentage of our population in prison than any other nation. And, we keep building more prisons, in fact many locales lobby for new prisons as a tool of economic recovery. What are
Online NewsHour: Crime Report: May 8, 2000 The FBI reports crime in the United States has decreased for the eighth year and trebling steadily the incarceration controls in the United States since http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june00/crime_5-08.html
Extractions: The youngest person ever convicted of murder receives his sentence. April 21, 1999: Experts discuss clues to teen violence. Aug. 11, 1998: How should the legal system handle kids who kill? Browse Online NewsHour coverage of the law Congress and youth FBI FBI: Uniform Crime Report RAND JACK RILEY: Well, I think you have to look for something that would help explain why crime fell rather substantially across most of the country and at approximately the same time. And there are very few things that can meet those two criteria in terms of explaining what happened to crime. I would point first to demographics. There's been a rather substantial change in the number of people in the age 15 to 24 bracket that commit most of the crimes here in the country or that are most likely to commit crime, and the second factor is probably economic growth in combination with reduced opportunities in drug marketing and drug trafficking because of declines in drug use.
Texas Politics - Crime And Punishment In Texas And The U.S. Texas and US crime and incarceration Rates, 19772002* Original data is fromFBI Uniform crime Reports. incarceration rates from 1977-1988 are from the http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/html/just/features/0505_03/incarceration.h
Extractions: Thinking Comparatively Crime and Punishment in Texas and the U.S. Texas and U.S. Crime and Incarceration Rates, 1977-2002* "D on't do the crime if you can't do the time," raps Snoop Dogg. Measured as the number of violent and property crimes per 100,000 population, the crime rate in Texas since the early 1980s has consistently run ten percent or more above the national average. At no time since 1977 has the Texas crime rate dropped below the national average. On the other hand, the incarceration rate in Texas dipped below the national incarceration rate from 1988-1991. This dip coincided with the peak in Texas' crime rate and the start of the last major Texas prison building boom. Since 1992, as the crime rate has fallen both nationally and in Texas, incarceration rates have mushroomed. Rising more than forty percent nationally since 1992, the rate of imprisonment in state prisons alone in Texas has jumped more than one hundred percent. Since 1994 it has run above the national average by forty-five percent or more. Source : Bureau of Justice Statistics; Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council. (
:: Virtual Reference: Crime @ W. Frank Steely LIBRARY :: FBI crime in the United States/Uniform crime Reports Offers statistical data on the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services. http://library.nku.edu/vrr/crime.html
The Year In Crime First, the official crime statistics gathered from the bureaucrats in The incarceration rate (per 100000 population) surpassed the 700 mark this year, http://www.sheldensays.com/year_in_crime.htm
Extractions: The year in crime Several conclusions seem warranted upon close inspection of the world of crime and criminal justice over the past year. First, the official crime statistics gathered from the bureaucrats in Washington known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, via their annual Uniform Crime Reports , tell us once again that crime is dropping. And throughout the past year pundits galore have given us these numbers ad nauseam by uncritically reporting what the FBI tells them. Yet stories continue to circulate about various scandals revolving around police departments A cooking the books on their crime statistics. The infamous Ramparts scandal within the Los Angeles Police Department has called into question over 100 arrests so far - with more no doubt forthcoming. Few enterprising journalists seem to be taking these scandals to their logical conclusion that the yearly FBI crime statistics could be at best questionable, and at worst worthless. Is it not also interesting that, according to public opinion polls, people are just as fearful about crime today than 10 or 20 years ago. And crime still tops the charts on local newscasts - A if it bleeds, it leads.
Poynter Online - Online Crime Stats Better Than Sourcebooks Online crime stats Better Than Sourcebooks Years ago when I was a crimereporter for The Charlotte Observer, I often relied on two thick, heavy books of http://www.poynter.org/content/content_print.asp?id=12005&custom=
Crime And Correctons The rise in incarceration rates despite falling crime rates reflects Michigan is one of only 12 states (and the District of Columbia) that does not http://www.michiganinbrief.org/edition07/Chapter5/CrimeCorrect.htm
Extractions: Arrest A law-enforcement agency's seizure, holding, summons, or citation of a person for an unlawful act. Camp A minimum-security corrections facility for prisoners convicted of less-serious offenses or nearing release. Community policing Index crimes Juvenile crime In Michigan, offenses committed by youths aged 16 and under. Non-index crimes Crimes and infractions other than the eight serious (index) crimes. Offense Unlawful acts reported to a law-enforcement agency. Parole A period of time prior to full release from state jurisdiction in which offenders are at large but subject to regular monitoring by a parole officer. Probation An alternative to incarceration in which the convicted person is at large but monitored; sometimes offenders are sentenced to incarceration followed by probation. [APRIL 1, 2002] The Michigan State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classify crimes as
Review Essay: Race To Incarcerate These numbers delineate an increase in our use of incarceration that would Supporters describe these initiatives as efforts to reduce crime by getting http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/16/2summer1999/b_essay.html
Extractions: Abstract: In 1980, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, American jails and prisons held approximately 578,000 inmates; by mid-1998, that number had risen to over 1.8 million persons. This essay focuses on Race to Incarcerate , Marc Mauer's recent contribution to the growing literature on the unprecedented increase in prison populations in the United States in recent years and the national emphasis on punishment. Mauer is well-known for his work with the Sentencing Project, which has resulted in publication of a number of influential studies that are particularly well known for calling attention to problems of racial disparity in the U.S. justice system. Race to Incarcerate reprsents an extension of that effort and provides a reasonably lucid and concise account of a complex and important issue.
Justice Policy Institute: Connect The Dots On Crime Schiraldi s point is not that incarceration causes violence; when drops incrime would allow the states to sensibly reexamine their prison policies. http://www.justicepolicy.org/article.php?id=237
Justice Policy Institute Information on gang crime, statistics, and analysis Read More. Tipping PointMaryland s Overuse of incarceration and the impact on Public Safety http://www.justicepolicy.org/
Extractions: In Louisiana right now, there are hundreds of kids locked up who have no idea if their families are alive or not? The youth from the Orleans Parish Detention Center arrived at Jetson Correctional Center for Youth on Wednesday, covered in sewage, starving, dehydrated, having been stranded for days ...
TalkLeft: The High Cost Of Incarceration The High Cost of incarceration. by TChris. States are rethinking the lock emup approach to crime as they notice a correlation between soaring prison http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006321.html
Extractions: Main Monday :: May 03, 2004 The High Cost of Incarceration by TChris States are rethinking the "lock 'em up" approach to crime as they notice a correlation between soaring prison populations and rising deficits. A report by the Justice Department should fuel the demand for reform. The number of arrests rose only to 13.7 million in 2001 from 12 million in 1982, and the number of court cases grew only to 92.8 million in 2001 from 86 million in 1984, the report found. But the number of state and federal prison inmates jumped to 1.3 million in 2001, up from only 488,000 in 1985. At the same time, the number of inmates in local and county jails tripled, to 631,000, the report said. The pricetag for fighting crime reached $167 billion in 2001. Realizing that they can't afford to continue funding an unduly harsh response to crime, states have started to rethink their sentencing philosophies. In the last year, more than half the states took legislative steps to modify tough sentencing laws they passed in the 1990's, like scrapping mandatory minimum terms or requiring treatment instead of prison for first-time drug offenders, said Dan Wilhelm, director of the state sentencing and corrections program at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York.
More To Crime Than Numbers Show The Mayor quoted from my January column to explain Montgomerys crime So whenI wrote about the disproportionately high incarceration rate of nonwhite http://www.majorcox.com/columns/rac-ins2.htm
Extractions: ~ Folmar By Major W. Cox During his 1997 State of the City address, Mayor Emory Folmar quoted from my recent column, " Hits And Misses From The Year Past." I am honored that the mayor referenced my work, I only wish he would have used material from my original column, "Institutional Racism Still Oppresses" (March 1996). In his speech before the Lions Club on January 13, Mayor Folmar said he was taking a stand against accusations of racism. Using articles from the Montgomery Advertiser critical of some of his political tactics, he launched a volatile defense. In his speech, he responds to an editorial critical of his last reelection campaign, saying the " election was over politics not over race." In that campaign, the mayor selected and supported a slate of five white candidates dubbed "Montgomerys Team" and won control of the council. In response to the New Years Day editorial criticizing his decision not to include any non-white members on his Montgomerys Team, he said, "It was white folks I was trying to beat." This column is not about that election, I have expressed my opinion about the mayors Montgomery Team previously. The issue presently is the mayors use of my end of the year summation as a foil for his remarks on Montgomerys crime statistics. In my original column, I discussed the decline of individual racist acts contrasted with some of the to-date irresolvable aspects of institutional racism. I defined and explained orthodox racism as "any theory or belief that a persons inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, hair texture or facial features, determine human intellectual capacity and personality traits." I said, "racist ideology claims that existence of such genetic differences between population groups prove the existence of hierarchical race categories."
Crime And Punishment In America crime and Punishment in America displays the catastrophe of the US justice system . The present US rate of incarceration is six times the global average, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/currie98.htm
Extractions: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA By Elliott Currie Holt/Metropolitan 208 pp. $22.50 Reviewed by H. Bruce Franklin This is a very unfashionable book. Elliott Currie does not believe that we need to build more and more prisons, impose longer sentences, make prisons as harsh as possible, eliminate educational opportunities for prisoners, reinstitute chain gangs, treat juvenile offenders as adults, and divert still more funds from social services to penal institutions. He clings to the old-fashioned notion that we should concentrate more on the prevention of crime. He even goes so far as to accept the hopelessly outdated idea that widespread poverty is the main cause of violent crime. If all this were not antiquated enough, Currie also evidently assumes that rational argument based on scientific knowledgei.e., reason and factscan change social policy. Even his prose style is anachronistic: earnest, free of jargon, lucid. When Currie, who has taught sociology and criminology at Yale and Berkeley, advanced similar arguments in his 1985 volume Confronting Crime , the New York Times Has this experiment worked? Media attention has recently highlighted the falling rate of crime for the past four years. As Currie demonstrates, this decline has come during a period of unusually low unemployment and relative prosperity, actually bolstering his thesis that extreme poverty is the main cause of crime. Moreover, he notes that the crime rate has been falling only in relation to the extremely high levels of 1990-1993, two decades into the mass incarceration program. If we compare 1996with 1984, the year cited in the review of Currie's earlier volume, we discover that the crime rate (according to the FBI's annual Crime Index) has actually
Extractions: and Demetra Smith Nightingale , The Urban Institute Abstract Much has been written on the causes and negative consequences of arrest and incarceration on the employment and earnings of individuals. Research has documented the social and psychological effects of crime on families and children. But the impact of incarceration on communities has received little attention, other than to document the positive economic benefits of prison building and administration. This paper seeks to begin to fill this gap by developing a conceptual framework for examining the economic impact of incarceration on human capital, and by extension, on families and communities. Hopefully, our framework and suggestions for further exploration will help shape federal, state, and local policies that will minimize the loss of human potential to crime and its consequences. The vast majority of inmates and persons under supervision by the justice system are males of prime working age. Freeman (1991) estimates that about 25% of all young men 16 to 34 years old committed crimes in 1988 and that 14% of all young men were arrested in that year. The rates are disproportionately higher for African-American males. Although African-Americans make up about 12% of the population, African-American males account for one-third of arrests and one-half of all incarcerations. According to Freeman's estimates, 20 to 30% of young African-American males were incarcerated or under supervision in 1988. Many more have a criminal record.
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US Prisons If the US incarceration rate were commensurate with our 5x higher crime rates than incarceration rates in contiguous states vary due to women in law? http://christianparty.net/prison.htm
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation Home Page Georgias crime rate is lower than many of its neighbors, We also have theseventhhighest incarceration rate, with a rate of 552 prisoners per 100000 http://www.gppf.org/default.asp?pt=newsdescr&RT=3&RI=839
Department Of The Premier And Cabinet - Changing crime statistics in offence categories with low numbers tend to fluctuate Indigenous incarceration rates are 1724 per 100000 adult population more http://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/About_the_department/publications/reports/Premier
Extractions: Problems viewing this site Access keys Skip to primary navigation Skip to secondary navigation ... Contact Us Search: Government Community groups Business and industry About the department ... Get involved Premier's Message Context The changing character of crime Addressing Crime the Queensland Criminal Justice System ... August 2003 - Responding to crime The changing character of crime Print-friendly version The nature of crime statistics Sentencing and imprisonment Accurate crime data are difficult to obtain both in Australia and elsewhere. In many countries, some crimes are not reported to police, and definitions of what constitutes a crime can change from nation to nation. Victimisation surveys also measure people's understanding of crime, which may not always match with official classifications of crime. This is why there are always differences between justice system recorded crime data and victimisation survey data. When interpreting crime figures and crime trends over time, it's important to consider that:
Introduction To Sociology, 5th Edition States with Lowest incarceration Rates. State. incarceration Rate. crime Rate.State. incarceration Rate. crime Rate. 1. Louisiana http://www.wwnorton.com/giddens5/ch/07/data-exercise.asp
Extractions: Your textbook gave you a number of statistics about various crimes. In this project, you will use Statistical Abstract of the U.S. to look for different types of crime statistics. The Statistical Abstract contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. We will be using this source to gather information on criminal activity, levels of unemployment, and rates of incarceration in order to gain a better understanding of patterns of crime in American society. In order to obtain the information for this exercise, follow these steps: Start at the webpage for the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the U.S . (you can also find this book in the reference section of your library). Click on the link for the latest online version of this publication. On the next webpage, scroll down until you see the designated section heading and then click on the link to the tables associated with the most recently-published edition. (NOTE: You will need Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer in order to open these pages. If you do not have this program, you can download it for free at the Adobe website On the next page, you should see a list of tables on the left side, with text on the right. You will be using several different tables, which are indicated in the discussion below.
