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(ISSN 1530 – 3012) From the editor Toward A More Policy-Relevant National Drug Control Strategy Online Harassment and Victimization of College Students My Mother, My Hero: A personal reflection on domestic violence Attitudes Towards Megan’s Law and Juvenile Sex Offenders “Don’t Worry, It’s Just a Tool”: Enacting Selectively Enforced Laws Such as Curfew Laws Targeting Only the Bad Guys From the editor By Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. and Randall G. Shelden, M.A., Ph.D. From the…
San Francisco’s Reentry Commissioner and Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Program Director Gerald Miller discusses the hot topic of legalizing marijuana. Mr. Miller covers misconceptions of legalizing marijuana, the trends marijuana arrest rates have taken in the last twenty years, and some of the implications involved if marijuana were to be legalized. As indicated in the graph above, misdemeanor marijuana arrests have been on an upward trend since 1992. ~ In 1990 Marijuana…
Publications Mar 1, 2010
Are Teenage Criminals Getting Younger and Younger? Exposing another Urban Legend
Are Teenage Criminals Getting Younger and Younger? Exposing another Urban Legend
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Program Director Gerald Miller offers his insight on the overcrowding of California prisons. He discusses the criminalization of unwanted social behaviors, what overcrowding actually looks like, the effects it has on violence, and the important role community programs play in fixing this problem. Listen to staff Ashley Afferino interview CJCJ Program Director and SF Reentry Commissioner Gerald Miller on prison overcrowding. Brief History From…