Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Parkland Shooting: A Month's Retrospective

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It's been a month since the horrific shooting at Parkland, and today students nationwide are walking out in memory of the victims and in...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

From "Nothing Works" to "Something Works"

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This morning, the Guardian is covering a great vocational program in Southern California called Manifest Works , "an immersive workfor...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Ending Lifetime Registration of Sex Offenders--A Courageous and Sensible Idea

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Yesterday's L.A. Times reports : “SB 384 proposes thoughtful and balanced reforms that allow prosecutors and law enforcement to focus...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

CJCJ Study: Drug Arrests Plummet, Racial Disparities Persist

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I got a lot of commentary, in person and on Facebook, after my post about Ban the Box backfiring. Folks were expressing serious frustration ...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Reform and Unintended Consequences: The Case of Ban the Box

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In early February, Malcolm Feeley won the President's Award from Western Society of Criminology . It was a real treat to be able to rec...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Courage to Reach Out: Why Addressing Violent Criminals Is Better for All of Us

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The classic approach toward violent crime that scares us has been to ratchet up sentencing. But draconian sentences do not function well as ...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

"I Am Speaking to You Through the Record": Charles Manson's Last Parole Hearings

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To whet your appetite, this is an excerpt from my book in progress, Yesterday's Monsters , under contract with the University of Califo...