Policy Center: Public Policy
Three judges and the California prison system
submitted on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 13:09 by Daniel MacallairThe recent decision by the three judge panel in the Coleman/Plata case should be applauded as a short but positive step forward in forcing some degree of sanity upon the broken California prison system. Unfortunately, the fact that a panel of Federal judges was forced to step in and force the state to make long overdue policy decisions is simply another poignant reminder of ou
Chicago School Sociology is Alive and Well at the LA Times
submitted on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 06:15 by Randall G. SheldenChildren of war
submitted on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 14:06 by Randall G. SheldenI was simply going through my usual morning routine, scanning various media outlets on the Internet, when I checked Bob Herbert’s latest column in the New York Times. I suppose it was
Kids Die all but invisibly
submitted on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...I thought that after studying and writing about juvenile justice for more than 30 years nothing would shock me, that I had seen and heard everything. I was wrong. The title of a recent story in the Los Angeles Times gives a hint to what it is about: “Flawed county system lets kids die invisibly.”
Dropping Out and Crime
submitted on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...It has become a truism that there is a close connection between school failure and juvenile crime, as demonstrated by literally hundreds of studies over the past 100 years. As if to remind us once again, here comes yet another study, this one by the California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara. As reported in today’s
The end of an era?
submitted on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. SheldenA story in the Los Angeles Times caught my eye. The title tells most of the story: “California to close its largest juvenile prison.” The institution is the Heman G.
Treating kids under 12 as adults
submitted on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 23:00 by Randall G. Shel...A new study released by the Lyndon B.
Juvenile Mental Health Outlook
submitted on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:39 by Daniel Macallai...Listen to Daniel Macallair, Executive Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, speak on the Juvenile Mental Health Outlook on KCBS
New California Crime Stats: The Good-Bad News
submitted on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 23:00 by Mike A. Males, ...Just released Criminal Justice Statistics Center 2008 crime numbers and Center for Health Statistics 2007 death figures deal a double whammy to three decades of California’s criminal justice failure. But first, the ironies.
Now the hard part of prison reform...
submitted on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 23:00 by Mike A. Males, ...Last month, CJCJ released a detailed study documenting the feasibility, benefits, and cost savings of closing California’s juvenile prison system and transferring its dwindling roster of inmates to county detention facilities.