Recent Issues
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Themes: hidden racial inequality; diversity and juries; police-citizen interactions; predictive scales and the misclassification of prisoners; police response options; race and firearm prohibitions; reintegration and employment; why job training is not enough for ex-prisoners
Themes: court-ordered therapy; neighbourhoods, race, and police perceptions; solitary confinement; traffic tickets, police questioning, and legitimacy; criminal records and employment; electronic monitoring
Themes: (1) offenders, long sentences, and public perceptions (2) outdated risk assessments and validation (3) improving neighbourhoods to reduce violent crime (4) children and exposure to family violence (5) Black offenders, rehabilitation, and structural disadvantage at sentencing (6) false confessions and bias (7) murderers and the "necessity" of life sentences (8) youth, lack of economic opportunity, and crime
Themes: (1) Does pretrial release increase crime? (2) How can a scale that has the same error rate disadvantage one group over another? (3) Are Black youths disadvantaged by diversion? (4) Do minor convictions disproportionately punish immigrants? (5) Why neighbourhoods affect crime processing (6) Do plausible conditions for pretrial release change the outcome of a case? (7) Risk assessments for White people versus Indigenous persons (8) Exercising the right to silence and the police
Themes: (1) risk assessments and discrimination (2) economic conditions of a community and reintegration (3) How can Black police officers reduce aggressive policing by White officers? (4) police training and improving police-citizen interactions (5) prosecutorial decision making and the charging of accused people (6) general deterrence and criminal justice policy (7) unreasonable conditions of release and bail courts (8) criminal justice systems and punishment prior to an offence
Themes: (1) How should arrest rates across racialized groups be interpreted (2) race and "arrest records" (3) “undocumented” immigrants and crime rates (4) crime involvement and immigrant neighbourhoods (5) effective criminal justice responses to a violation of probation (6) can planting grass stop crime? (7) Is urban greenspace associated with crime? (8) security classifications of youths