Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
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CJCJ promotes balanced and humane criminal justice policies that reduce incarceration and promote long-term public safety. Covers articles on drug abuse, juvenile justice, social justice and sentencing.
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
1y ago
Reducing Recidivism by Creating and Measuring Fair Chances
Fighting Virginia High Schools: A Multilevel Analysis
Justice or Just Us: Media Portrayals and the Context of Police Violence
Incorporating Neurodiversity into Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Exploring the Policy Diffusion Potential of Pennsylvania’s Autism Training Law for Juvenile Court Judges
Reducing Recidivism by Creating and Measuring Fair Chances By: Joshua Burgher, Herbert Hamers, Claudia Patricia Rincón, and Geraldine Downey
The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and has seen a 500 percent i ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
1y ago
SAN FRANCISCO – June 2, 2022 – A publication released today by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice compares crime trends during Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s conservative prosecutorial term in office with those of San Francisco’s progressive prosecutors (George Gascon and Chesa Boudin) over a key period in California’s criminal justice reform era (2014-2021). DA Schubert has positioned herself as the state’s leading “tough-on-crime” candidate as she criticizes San Francisco’s progressive DA, Chesa Boudin, and seeks to unseat California’s reform-minded Attor ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
Given the extensive links between abuse and crime, family abuses are a critical issue in the justice system. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control’s survey on “teenage mental health” released on April 2 should be of critical importance.
The CDC’s latest study—instead of pointlessly cataloguing self-reported youthful behaviors in alarmed tones (yes, certain proportions of teenagers do drugs, drink, smoke, tote guns, get depressed, etc., corresponding to the grownups around them…what a shock)—actually asked some crucial contextual questions.
In particular, the CDC asked teens, how often di ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” - Winston Churchill
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The time is always right to do what is right.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The words of these famous men fit the life lived by one of my best friends, Willam B. Brown (1945-2022). He was known as Bud to everyone. It was his middle name. Bud and I first met in the early 1980's when he took one of my criminal justice classes at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). We soon became the best of fri ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
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SAN FRANCISCO – March 30, 2022 – A new report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) analyzes the impact of Prop 47’s years-long investments in California communities. By reclassifying several low-level drug and property offenses, Prop 47 has saved the state nearly $600 million in prison costs. Of that, almost $400 million has been reserved for programs that address the root causes of crime and violence, a ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
Contact: For more information about this topic or to schedule an interview, please contact CJCJ Communications at (415) 621-5661 x. 103 or cjcjmedia@cjcj.org.
SAN FRANCISCO – March 15, 2022 – A publication released today by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice examines performance trends within the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). At an annual cost of about $440 per resident, the SFPD remains a disturbing outlier among police agencies across the state. The SFPD solves fewer crimes compared to other large California cities while arresting Black residents with the widest racial dis ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
In this issue:
CJCJ organizes statewide action amid DJJ's catastrophic COVID-19 outbreak
3 Cameo House families receive permanent housing
CJCJ's Justice Policy Journal spotlights new research
CJCJ organizes statewide action amid DJJ's catastrophic COVID-19 outbreak
CJCJ and our community partners highlight COVID-19 outbreaks that infected 7 out of 10 youth in the Division of Juvenile Justice.
The graph showcases COVID-19 cases at DJJ beginning in June 2020. As of November 2021, the rate of infection has accelerated.
This past month, youth at California’s Division of Juvenile Ju ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
In early January, Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget for the 2022-23 Fiscal Year (FY). It included nearly $200 million for the soon-to-close Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), California’s state-run youth correctional system. DJJ has been plagued by scandal and abuse since its inception 80 years ago. In 2020, recognizing the system’s high costs and lengthy record of harm, the Governor and Legislature moved to close DJJ and return youth to county custody. According to the plan, DJJ would end new admissions by July 2021, allowing its youth population to steadily decline over tw ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
America’s Anti-Drug Abuse Act, the Disproportionality of Drug Laws on Blacks: A Policy Analysis
Abolishing Consensus Criminology: Confronting the Human Nature Assumption and Ritual Criminologists
Exploring Perceptions of Safety: Developing Safety and Support Measures to Assess Public Attitudes of Sex Offense Registration
Visitation Policies in Juvenile Residential Facilities in all 50 States
Focused Deterrence and Social Service Provision: Avenues for Future Research
America’s Anti-Drug Abuse Act, the Disproportionality of Drug Laws on Blacks: A Policy Analysis By: Latocia Keyes, Robert L. B ..read more
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
2y ago
This year, CJCJ will continue supporting families that have been impacted by the justice system through model community programs and research-driven public policy. Your generous support will allow CJCJ to build on our recent successes listed below. Please support CJCJ with a critical donation today!
2021 Publications:
California's Crime Rate Falls to a Record Low in 2020 - High reliance on incarceration is not linked to lower crime.
Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP) Evaluation - CJCJ’s DDAP significantly reduces youth recidivism.
California’s Republican Counties Have Worse Crime T ..read more