Female Involvement in Crime Growing: Crime News
Crime News from Crime in America.Net While crime throughout the country decreases and prison populations begin to level off, it’s disconcerting to see a rise in criminal activity among girls and women....
View Article20 Year Prison Study—Treatment Works: Crime Statistics
Crime in America.Net staff. We like to think that we bring our readers unique content and it doesn’t get more unique then the attached study. The research provides the results of a correctional program...
View ArticleIs Criminology Relevant?
Of course criminology is relevant. Our most important gains as to characteristics of crime and ways to combat crime come from the criminological community. All of us were schooled by criminologists who...
View ArticleWhat Works in Corrections-Crime in America.Net
Updated August, 2010. This article summarizes data as to the effectiveness of correctional programs regarding reductions in recidivism (returns to the criminal justice system via arrest, prosecution or...
View ArticleOlder felons an increasing problem for the justice system– Crime is no longer...
Crime Statistics from Crime in America.Net Part two of an analysis of “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties” A significant tenant in criminology is that people commit less crime as they get older....
View ArticleJuvenile offenders responsible for six percent of violent felonies: Crime...
Part three of an analysis of “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties” This is the final installment in a three-part series analyzing data of from “Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties,”...
View ArticleViolent offenders more likely to die in local jails
New data from the US Department of Justice provides some insight as to medical and psychological issues associated with criminal offenders. The reference to violent offenders is found on page 10 (link...
View ArticleWhy Are Some Female Correctional Officers Having Sexual Encounters With Male...
Crime in America.Net A reader asks why female prison staff members are over-represented as to sexually victimizing male inmates (see report below–69 percent of victimized male inmate’s claim sexual...
View ArticleIs criminal history related to future criminality?
Crime in America.Net Dear readers: A student asks if recidivism (an offender’s return to prison or higher sanctions) is connected to criminal history. She is asking whether a lengthy criminal history...
View ArticleShould we send offenders back to prison for technical violations?
Our little secret; Governors don’t want them back. Your opinions wanted. Crime in America.Net You can tell when it’s time for term papers in college; we get lots of questions from students. This one is...
View Article6,000 federal inmates released– states affected
The US Sentencing Commission modified its guidelines affecting 46,000 federal inmates with drug distribution charges to be released (after judicial review) approximately two years early with 6,000...
View ArticleSome Offenders Believe That Justice Reforms Are BS
Subtitles: Are we playing a game of meaningless gestures? Is Ban the Box pointless? Is voting a hollow gesture? Offenders, criminals or justice-involved individuals; are labels important? Author By...
View Article77 Percent of Prisoners Arrested For Another Crime-Few Are Specialists
Subtitles 76.6% of state prisoners released in 30 states in were arrested for a new crime within 5 years of release. Compared to other inmates, a higher percentage of those incarcerated for a violent...
View ArticleVirginia’s Record Low Recidivism-Nobel Worthy or Shell Game?
Subtitles Virginia claims to have the lowest rate of returns to prison in the country. Virginia maintains a re-incarceration rate of 23.4 percent after three years. This is after two major studies over...
View ArticleAre Offender Rehabilitation Programs Dead? New DOJ Report
Observations Has “nothing works” been replaced by “nothing works well?” With new data from the Department of Justice regarding a signature program, it seems that rehabilitation or reentry programs for...
View ArticleRace and Violent Crime
Police Van 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 state criminal...
View ArticleGPS 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 supervise high-risk offenders. But the...
View ArticleMouthy 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 and violence as a statistic....
View ArticleFacebook 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 their grievances. It’s also...
View ArticleReleased 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 incarceration, the number of arrests after...
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