A team of researchers from the University of California, the University of Michigan, Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, the State University of New York and the University of Colorado School of Medicine ...
On the night the 2016 census was taken, more than 116,000 Australians were homeless. This was a 30% increase from the decade before.
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Apr 4, 2019
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When people consider sentencing an offender for a crime, they support heavier punishments when information about the cost of incarceration is unavailable, Georgia State University researchers have found.
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Jan 23, 2019
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Advocacy groups and activists should appeal to self-interests if they want to obtain public support for criminal justice reform, according to a new study.
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Jul 19, 2017
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Florida transfers juvenile offenders to adult court at a higher rate than any other state in the nation, and a new Florida State University study has found that those transferred are much less likely to be sentenced to incarceration ...
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Jul 7, 2017
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According to U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics, American prisons currently house more than 2.2 million individuals, a population roughly the size of Houston, Texas. This incarceration rate is staggeringly high—no other ...
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Apr 12, 2017
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There are approximately four million people on probation or parole at any given time in the United States, nearly double the number of people incarcerated in the nation's jails and prisons. Yet, despite the fact that community ...
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Dec 8, 2016
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Overflowing prison populations and high rates of violent crime once made New York City a metaphor for the urban decay confronting America's cities. But over the last two decades crime in the nation's largest city has declined ...
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Oct 31, 2016
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Private prisons are a particularly hot topic these days, the setting of the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black and the subject of a recent 35,000-word Mother Jones exposé, in which a reporter went undercover as a corrections ...
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Jul 15, 2016
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As incarceration rates have increased in the United States, so has the likelihood that children will endure the imprisonment of a parent—especially among the most disadvantaged populations. But how does the imprisonment ...
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Jun 14, 2016
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