Crime is falling to historic lows. This economist knows how to make it plunge even faster.

Are you the victim of a crime? Do you feel the criminal justice system efficiently assisted you? Have you been in prison, probation or parole? Have you faced barriers related to housing or education?

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Stakeholders in the nation’s criminal justice administration have identified ways to address inherent challenges hampering the effectiveness of the system. They identified some of such challenges to ...

Josh Spickler and Yonée Gibson discuss issues affecting the local criminal justice system. Just City’s Executive Director Josh Spickler and Just City’s Program and People Experience Manager Yonée ...

More than a decade ago, I walked into the Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Los Angeles County to gather data for a lawsuit related to their “failure to provide an adequate education to detained ...

Researchers need access to agency data, but it can be difficult or impossible to come by. You can’t solve a problem you can’t ...

Tennessee lawmakers have introduced a bill modeled on the American Legislative Exchange Council's Researcher Access to Data Act, which would require criminal justice agencies to share data with ...

It was dark and windy the evening of Sunday, September 8, 2019, when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—everyone called him Sito—and his girlfriend, Ariana Bassard, left his girlfriend’s mother’s new apartment in ...

The legislature has made dramatic reforms to our criminal justice system over the past several years—limiting monetary bail, increasing the discovery obligations of prosecutors, reducing incarceration ...

Bill Gibbons and Jonathan Bennett discuss data practices within the criminal justice system. University of Memphis Public Safety Institute Executive Director Bill Gibbons and Center for Community ...