Highlights New research quantifies increasing violence, homicides and gun crimes. Previous USDOJ research shows a 28 percent increase in violent crime. Serious violent crime also…
View More Homicides and Gun Crimes Exploding-What Comes Next?Category: Criminal Offenders
Biden’s Crime And Police Agenda Is Filled With Landmines
Highlights Does Mr. Biden have any police or crime control options that will not cost him politically? To rebuild high poverty areas and to create…
View More Biden’s Crime And Police Agenda Is Filled With LandminesTough On Crime Wins Elections
Highlights Obama-Cool it with the “defund the police” slogan. Gallup-The majority of those polled believe that “tough on crime” issues should guide public policy. Marshall…
View More Tough On Crime Wins ElectionsFemale Correctional Officers And Sexual Misconduct
Highlights 69 percent of staff sexual assault allegations with male prison inmates involve female correctional employees, Bureau Of Justice Statistics. In juvenile facilities, in most-serious…
View More Female Correctional Officers And Sexual MisconductBiden-Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An Election
Highlights Past Quotes From Joe Biden: “Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An Election” “Violent crime is…
View More Biden-Give Me The Crime Issue And You’ll Never Have Trouble With It In An ElectionCriminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’t
Offender Rehabilitation And Reentry Programs-What Works “Programs that included group work, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or CBT-like components, counseling, or that used drug court or other…
View More Criminal Rehabilitation Programs-Some Work-Most Don’tFederal And State Offenders Highly Mobile-30 To 60 Percent Had Convictions In Multiple States
Highlights Federal offenders seem to be highly mobile. If we include arrests and prosecutions along with convictions, the percentages from other states would be much…
View More Federal And State Offenders Highly Mobile-30 To 60 Percent Had Convictions In Multiple StatesProbation and Recidivism–A Lot Of These Guys Have 15 to 20 Felonies
Highlights “The leniency shown to these bad actors by the judicial system results in recidivistic crimes that prey on the public…” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Is the…
View More Probation and Recidivism–A Lot Of These Guys Have 15 to 20 FeloniesThe Dangerous Nature Of Firearm Offenders
Highlights Firearm offenders are dangerous. Prison may be the only answer. Per the US Sentencing Commission (below), firearm offenders recidivate more, recidivate quickly, and do…
View More The Dangerous Nature Of Firearm OffendersAre All Released Prisoners Rearrested?
Highlights Most released from prison are rearrested and reincarcerated. Quote “Our officers are very often in the right places and at the right times, but…
View More Are All Released Prisoners Rearrested?The Federal Government Will Predict Future Criminal Behavior
Highlights Development of the US Department of Justice risk and needs assessment could affect as many as 106,000 federal prisoners. If researchers and critics cannot…
View More The Federal Government Will Predict Future Criminal BehaviorAre States Truthful About Offender Recidivism?
Highlights States are claiming reduced recidivism yet national data states that five out of six prisoners are rearrested, many multiple times, and that the vast…
View More Are States Truthful About Offender Recidivism?Officer, That Dog Doesn’t Have Water-Arrest That Man
Highlights There is a new DOJ document providing advice to law enforcement regarding animal cruelty. I understand how people view their pets and their belief…
View More Officer, That Dog Doesn’t Have Water-Arrest That ManShould We Release Older Inmates? Aging Offenders and Recidivism
Observations Is it time to consider the release of older inmates considered to be an acceptable risk to public safety? A near 40 percent rearrest…
View More Should We Release Older Inmates? Aging Offenders and RecidivismDoes #Metoo Apply To All Violent Victimizations?
Observations If the #metoo movement wants sexual abusers held accountable, why doesn’t the same philosophy apply to all violent crime offenders? Is one violent victim…
View More Does #Metoo Apply To All Violent Victimizations?Released Prisoners Commit Two Million Crimes-Five Arrests Per Offender
Observations Offender recidivism is extremely high. It doesn’t matter if you are pro or anti sentencing reform or any manner of lessening the impact of…
View More Released Prisoners Commit Two Million Crimes-Five Arrests Per OffenderFacebook Bans Violence, Crime and Criminal Behavior-Is That Possible?
Observations Facebook is banning violence, crime and criminal behaviors from its platform (see guidelines below). Social media is now a super-highway for mass murderers and…
View More Facebook Bans Violence, Crime and Criminal Behavior-Is That Possible?Mouthy Offenders And Violence
Prison Cells Observations Per data, offenders can be verbal, intoxicated people who overreact to perceived provocations that result in criminal violence. We see crime…
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GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?
Observations Electronic monitoring data on reductions of technical violations and returns to prison indicate the possibility of a more effective and humane way to…
View More GPS and Social Media Surveillance-Best Hope for Corrections?
Race and Violent Crime
Observation Half (51 percent) of violent victimizations from 2012 to 2015 were intraracial. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and…
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