In this paper we report on our ongoing study of integrated criminal justice systems. Our focus here is on theorizing the nature of and arrangements among the policy issues, operational activities, and technical architectures to support knowledge sharing among personnel and across geographic and organizational boundaries. Here we draw on data from a comparative case study across three sites to r...

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The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy is a multidisciplinary, collaborative venture to produce research, research-based policy prescriptions and curricular innovation on the most challenging civil rights, education, criminal justice, family and economic security, immigration and healthcare issues facing California and the Nation. BOYS AND YOUNG MEN OF COLOR A ReseARch...

The operation of criminal justice systems (broadly the police, the courts and corrections) is a complex and expensive process. Management of these systems depends on some knowledge of the longterm and cross-system impacts of policy changes across the system. Simulation models are valuable tools in the administration of criminal justice systems, providing the ability to project the relative effe...

This is the most important book on public policy to be published in a long time. Benson takes on the most pervasive government activity, the criminal justice system, and addresses the critical issue of our high crime rate. There are no clear “academic” solutions to this problem, but Benson presents a clear and sensible solution derived from the insights of Austrian economics—the privatization o...

t he American Bar Association (ABA) does not publish reviews of sociologic and criminologic research projects, but it does have firm policy egarding the transfer of juveniles into the adult justice ystem. The ABA believes that underage defendants generlly should not be placed in the adult system. Thus, the rowing trend by courts to try minors as adults has tirred deep concern within the associa...

Nationally, there have been increased calls for evidence-based criminal justice policy. Despite considerable progress toward that objective, there still is no systematic, comparative foundation for assessing the relative effectiveness of diverse sanctions in achieving any of a range of goals. In this article, the importance of evidence-based policy and the critical research gaps that must be fi...

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