A March 1st SF Chronicle article highlighted recent comments made in Washington D.C. by retiring SF State President Robert Corrigan about California’s excessive prison spending and annual cuts to higher education. He noted that, “California is spending nearly as much money on prisons ($8.7 billion, or 9.45 percent of its budget), as it does on all of higher education ($9.3 billion, or 10.1 percent of its budget)”. Looking at just the UC’s and CSU’s, the state spends less than half ($4.6…
Blog Mar 13, 2012
School-to-prison pipeline [video]
CJCJ’s Senior Research Fellow, Randall Shelden, discusses the school-to-prison pipeline in this video blog. He notes, “dropping out should be seen as a process, not an event.” His most recent publication blends theory, research, and applications into a superb overview of the complex issues surrounding juvenile delinquency and society’s attempts to address juvenile crime: Randall G. Shelden. (2011). Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in American Society, 2nd ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press .…
Blog Mar 8, 2012
And the rich get richer
Here’s some news that should surprise no one: the richest 1% made out just fine during the last decade. For everyone else, well, let us all eat our foreclosures and our life savings! This news comes from a brand new study by a noted expert in the area (who has written about this subject many times), Emmanuel Saez. His report can be found here . It is a short report and if you look at Table 1 you will find this statement at the bottom: “For example, from 2002 to 2007, average real family…
Humboldt County’s Probation Department is leading the way in utilizing innovative funding streams for serving California’s highest-risk, highest-need youthful offenders. The department utilizes innovating funding streams in their New Horizons program to provide mental health in-facility and aftercare treatment in a way that puts rehabilitation at the center of their department’s mission. From Humboldt’s County Probation Deptartment’s website : New Horizons, an intensive…
Selena Teji, CJCJ’s Communication Specialist, discussed “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice” on KQED’s Forum with Barry Krisberg, director of the Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, and Brian Brown, managing principal analyst at the Legislative Analyst’s Office. If you missed the show, go to “Phasing Out Juvenile Justice ” or review the summary below. The above-mentioned experts discussed the following juvenile justice realignment…