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Along with her counterparts in Brazos and Harris counties, she supports raising the age of juvenile criminal jurisdiction in Texas so that all 17-year-olds automatically go to the juvenile system. On the national level, the issue rarely surfaces, even in a newly receptive political climate for criminal justice reform.
It advocates for cost-effective approaches to criminal justice spending, striving to "produce the best possible results at the lowest possible cost." [15] The statement describes how the current criminal justice system does not work for every offender and may in fact be counterproductive by hardening low-risk offenders. The organization ...
Criminal justice reform seeks to address structural issues in criminal justice systems such as racial profiling, police brutality, overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Reforms can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’ lives, including lawmaking, policing, sentencing and ...
Published since 1989, Current Issues in Criminal Justice is the peer-reviewed law journal of the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the university of Sydney Law School. Current Issues in Criminal Justice provides critical analysis and discussion of crime and justice issues. The Journal welcomes quality submissions from local and international ...
A look at where the various court cases against President-elect Donald Trump stand, and how they may — or may not — be affected by his taking the oath of office on Jan. 20.
A white former Kansas City police officer who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man was released from prison Friday after Missouri’s governor commuted ...
On non-school days it increases in the afternoon through evening, peaking from 7 pm to 9 pm local time (usually night time) after dark. Curfews have been used to curb juvenile crime, typically the hours of 10 pm to 6 am, but only 15% of such crimes occur during curfew hours, while most (63%) juvenile crime occurs on school days. [17]
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