Newsroom Oct 31, 2011
Philly Greens Call Curfew, “new Jim Crow”
Philly Greens Call Curfew, “new Jim Crow” OpEdNews.com, October 28, 2011
Blog Oct 31, 2011
Time for juvenile justice reform
After 5 years, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) hosted their most successful national conference with over 3,000 registrants from across the country this year. From October 12th through October 14th, OJJDP presented over 65 workshops, utilizing 11 distinct tracks. The tracks provided particular perspectives, such as those specifically tailored for funders, law enforcement, and tribal communities, but also included more over-arching juvenile justice topics to…
Newsroom Oct 27, 2011
The Trouble With Youth Curfews
The Trouble With Youth Curfews Atlantic Cities, October 26, 2011
The most definitive answer I heard to this question at today’s panel on Realignment, sponsored by the Warren Institute on Law and Policy at UC Berkeley, was “no one knows.” The outcomes of criminal justice realignment are still unclear as it recently went into effect October 1st. Other factors include the difficulties in knowing how many offenders realignment will actually affect due to the specificity of offender categories outlined for local supervision and “justice by geography.” By…
Blog Oct 25, 2011
Is Wall Street a gang? Part I
By now just about everyone has become aware of the social movement known as Occupy Wall Street . It has occurred to me that one of the justifications for this movement is the massive amount of fraud committed by various corporations that constitute what is known as “Wall Street” in addition to crimes linked to specific individuals rather than corporations. I am in the middle of updating my book on gangs and in the process have included a discussion of what exactly is a “gang” and it…