Blog Dec 30, 2015
Young black men is not a metaphor for violence
The failures of local authorities to hold police accountable for killing unarmed black men deserve angry condemnation — not more stereotyping.
Blog Dec 23, 2014
When did it become legal to strip-search a child?
CJCJ Deputy Director Dinky Manek Enty writes in the Chronicle of Social Change about a new proposal to strip-search visitors, including children visiting their incarcerated parents.
“Criminology at the Intersection of Oppression”: Worldwide perspectives on criminal justice are discussed at an international criminology meeting in San Francisco.
Fox’s Bill O’Reilly’s commentary citing CJCJ statistics failed to note our data showing African Americans are much more likely than whites to be killed by police. Unjustifiable police killings of unarmed suspects likely involve even wider racial disparities.
Blog Dec 9, 2014
A Shifting America: Latinos and a Health Equity-Centered Approach to Juvenile Justice
Residents of East Salinas are looking to indigenous practices to change their county’s approach to juvenile justice.