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Criminal Justice Research Library for September 5, 2019 Bringing you the latest in empirical research about mass incarceration

We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 22 new reports to the Research Library [[link removed]]: ISOLATED: ICE Confines Some Detainees with Mental Illness in Solitary for Months [[link removed]] by Project On Government Oversight, August, 2019

"There are 2,944 reports of use of solitary confinement with a placement date during 2017, most of which was during the Trump Administration. Of those, 39 percent (1,160) indicate the detainees in solitary had mental illness." Categories: Immigration [[link removed]] Conditions of Confinement [[link removed]] Mental Health [[link removed]] Gatekeepers: The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration [[link removed]] by Vera Institute of Justice, August, 2019

"The mass enforcement of relatively minor law violations suggests that policing practices currently tend toward punitive approaches in ways that are often not necessary to achieve public safety." Categories: Police and Policing [[link removed]] The 911 Call Processing System: A Review of the Literature as it Relates to Policing [[link removed]] by Vera Institute of Justice, August, 2019

"Analysis of calls for service data provides a huge and largely untapped opportunity for researchers and practitioners to inform and transform policy and practice." Categories: Police and Policing [[link removed]] Opportunity Costs: Unequal Justice in Alabama's Community Corrections Programs [[link removed]] by Southern Poverty Law Center, August, 2019

"The SPLC's eight-month investigation of community corrections programs in Alabama reveals serious flaws in a" Categories: Probation and parole [[link removed]] Immigration, Citizenship, and the Federal Justice System, 1998-2018 [[link removed]] by Bureau of Justice Statistics, August, 2019

"In 1998, 63% of all federal arrests were of U.S. citizens; in 2018, 64% of all federal arrests were of non-U.S. citizens." Categories: Immigration [[link removed]] Association of Parental Incarceration With Psychiatric and Functional Outcomes of Young Adults [[link removed]] by Elizabeth J. Gifford, Lindsey Eldred Kozecke, and Megan Golonka, August, 2019

"Parental incarceration is associated with a broad range of psychiatric, legal, financial, and social outcomes during young adulthood. Parental incarceration is a common experience that may perpetuate disadvantage from generation to generation." Categories: Families [[link removed]] Community Impact [[link removed]] Examining the relationship between U.S. incarceration rates and population health at the county level [[link removed]] by Robert R. Weidner and Jennifer Schultz, August, 2019

"Results of our analyses indicate that higher levels of incarceration are associated with higher levels of both morbidity (percentage reporting fair or poor health) and mortality (life expectancy)." Categories: Health impact [[link removed]] Community Impact [[link removed]] Misdemeanor Appeals [[link removed]] by Nancy J. King and Michael Heise, July, 2019

Authors found that appellate courts review no more than eight in 10,000 misdemeanor convictions, and disturb only one conviction or sentence out of every 10,000 misdemeanor judgments. Categories: Trials [[link removed]] The Agony & the Ecstasy of #MeToo: The Hidden Costs of Reliance on Carceral Politics [[link removed]] by Guy Padraic Hamilton-Smith, July, 2019

"Approaches that rely on carceral politics are deaf to the needs of survivors, especially when those needs diverge from maximizing state power." Categories: Sexual offenses [[link removed]] Sentences of Incarceration Decline Sharply, Public Safety Improves During Kim Foxx's Second Year in Office New data portal demonstrates benefit of criminal justice reform, transparency [[link removed]] by The People's Lobby, Reclaim Chicago, and Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, July, 2019

"We find that the use of prosecutorial discretion in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office has led to a decrease in incarceration sentences. At the same time, public safety has improved." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices [[link removed]] Confirmation Bias and Other Systemic Causes of Wrongful Convictions: A Sentinel Events Perspective [[link removed]] by Kim Rossmo and Joycelyn Pollock, July, 2019

"Detectives must minimize the risk of error by accurately assessing evidence reliability and avoiding premature shifts to suspect-based investigations. Resolving issues of cognitive bias and avoiding logic/analytic mistakes are equally important." Categories: Police and Policing [[link removed]] Trials [[link removed]] Incarceration and opioid withdrawal: The experiences of methadone patients and out-of-treatment heroin users [[link removed]] by Mitchell et al., June, 2019

This withdrawal is infrequently treated and represents a lost opportunity to engage or retain heroin addicted individuals in treatment and thereby reduce their risk for HIV, for overdose deaths, and for recidivism to drug use and crime. Categories: Drug Policy [[link removed]] Health impact [[link removed]] Collateral Consequences: The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption, and the Effects on Communities [[link removed]] by The United States Commission on Civil Rights, June, 2019

"The reach of each collateral consequence extends past people with criminal records to affect families and communities." Categories: Community Impact [[link removed]] The Treatment of People with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: The Example of Oneida County, New York [[link removed]] by Alexander Black, Kylie Davis, Kenneth Gray, Connor O'Shea, Alexander Scheuer, June, 2019

"The sub-standard condition of inpatient psychiatric facilities, due to deinstitutionalization and capital flight, means that there are not nearly enough beds or psych wards to house, let alone care for, all individuals with severe mental health issues." Categories: Mental Health [[link removed]] The Effectiveness of Mental Health Courts in Reducing Recidivism and Police Contact: A Systematic Review [[link removed]] by Desmond Loong, Sarah Bonato, Jan Barnsley, Carolyn S. Dewa, June, 2019

The results suggest there is some evidence that mental health courts help to reduce recidivism rates, but the effect on police contact is less clear. Results also suggest case managers or access to vocational and housing may be important components. Categories: Mental Health [[link removed]] Fighting Crime or Raising Revenue? Testing Opposing Views of Forfeiture. [[link removed]] by Brian Kelly, June, 2019

"These results add to a growing body of scholarly evidence supporting forfeiture's critics, suggesting that claims about forfeiture's value in crime fighting are exaggerated at best and that police do use forfeiture to raise revenue." Categories: Police and Policing [[link removed]] An Analysis of Texas Jail Bookings: How Texas Counties Could Save Millions of Dollars by Safely Diverting People From Jail [[link removed]] by Texas Appleseed, April, 2019

"Our overarching finding is that tens of thousands of people who are booked into Texas jails each year never need to be booked in jail at all." Categories: Jails [[link removed]] Pretrial Release Without Money: New York City, 1987-2018 [[link removed]] by New York City Criminal Justice Agency, March, 2019

"In 2018 there were more than three times as many releases without money than money bails." Categories: Pretrial Detention [[link removed]] The Contagiousness of Police Violence [[link removed]] by Thibaut Horel, Trevor Campbell, Lorenzo Masoero, Raj Agrawal, Andrew Papachristos and Daria Roithmayr, November, 2018

"Most remarkably, within two years, exposure to a single shooting more than doubles a network neighbor's probability of a future shooting." Categories: Police and Policing [[link removed]] The Darkest Corner: Special Administrative Measures and Extreme Isolation in the Federal Bureau of Prisons [[link removed]] by Center for Constitutional Rights, September, 2017

"Special Administrative Measures are the darkest corner of the U.S. federal prison system, combining the brutality and isolation of maximumsecurity units with additional restrictions that deny individuals almost any connection to the human world." Categories: Conditions of Confinement [[link removed]] Diversity on the Force: Where Police Don't Mirror Communities [[link removed]] by Governing, September, 2015

"Despite efforts to improve diversity, minorities remain largely underrepresented in many local police departments." Categories: Race and ethnicity [[link removed]] Police and Policing [[link removed]] Decriminalization and Depenalization of Marijuana Possession: A Case Study of Enforcement Outcomes in Prince George's County [[link removed]] by Meghan Kozlowski, Emily Glazener, James A. Mitchell, James P. Lynch, Jinney Smith, 2015

"The results suggest that changing arrest policies for low-quantity marijuana possession led to increases in enforcement for other low-level misdemeanor offenses. Additionally, our findings shed light on net-widening as a potential unintended consequence." Categories: Police and Policing [[link removed]] Please support our work [[link removed]]

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