Drug offenders
Adjustment to Prison of Women Convicted of Possession, Trafficking, and Nondrug Offenses
Evaluation of the Breaking the Cycle Demonstration Project: Jacksonville, FL and Tacoma, WA
Drugs, Race and Common Ground: Reflections on the High Point Intervention
Band-Aids and Bullhorns: Why California's Drug Policy Is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It
Psychosocial Correlates of Adolescent Drug Dealing in the Inner City: Potential Roles of Opportunity, Conventional Commitments, and Maturity
Classification of Narcotic Addicts Based on Type, Amount, and Severity of Crime
Juvenile Justice Programs in Prosecutor Offices: An Overview of Four Sites Final Report
Evaluation of Two Models of Treating Sentenced Federal Drug Offenders in the Community
Understanding the Link Between Race/Ethnicity, Drug Offending, and Juvenile Court Outcomes
State Responses to Mass Incarceration
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to mass incarceration, specifically its magnitude, costs, and collateral consequences. In the face of economic constraints, strategies to reduce correctional populations while maintaining public safety are becoming a fiscal necessity. This panel will present strategies that states have undertaken to reduce incarceration rates while balancing taxpayer costs with ensuring public safety.
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Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders - Panel at the 2009 NIJ Conference
NIJ Journal Issue No. 244
Solutions in Corrections: Using Evidence-based Knowledge
Professor Ed Latessa describes how his team and he assessed more than 550 programs and saw the best and the worst. Professor Latessa shared his lessons learned and examples of states that are trying to use evidence-based knowledge to improve correctional programs.
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Police-on-Police Shootings and the Puzzle of Unconscious Racial Bias
Professor Christopher Stone recently completed a study of police-on-police shootings as part of a task force he chaired in New York State. He reported on his findings and recommendations, exploring the role of race in policing decisions, methods to improve training and tactics to defuse police-on-police confrontations before they become fatal, and methods to improve the investigations of such shootings.
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Changing the Behavior of Drug-Involved Offenders: Supervision That Works
A small number of those who commit crimes are heavily involved in drugs commit a large portion of the crime in this country. An evaluation of a "smart supervision" effort in Hawaii that uses swift and certain sanctioning showed that individuals committing crimes who are heavily involved in drug use can indeed change their behavior when the supervision is properly implemented.
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Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders
The panel presentations from the 2009 NIJ Conference are based on an NIJ-sponsored evaluation of the effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123, which mandates community-based drug abuse treatment for drug possession by nonviolent offenders in lieu of prison.
An Examination of Justice Reinvestment and Its Impact on Two States
Funded in part by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Pew Center on the States, the justice reinvestment project is a data-driven strategy aimed at policymakers to "reduce spending on corrections, increase public safety and improve conditions in the neighborhoods to which most people released from prison return." Representatives from two states where the justice reinvestment strategy is currently being implemented will discuss how it is being used to reduce the rate of incarceration and how states can reinvest in local communities.
What Works in Probation and Parole
How can we prevent reoffending and reduce costs? Research points to a number of solutions. At the Tuesday plenary, Judge Steven Alm from Hawaii will describe his successes with hard-core drug offenders. “Swift and sure” is his motto. West Virginia Cabinet Secretary James W. Spears will discuss the issues from his state's perspective, and Adam Gelb, Director of the Pew Charitable Trust's Public Safety Performance Project, will lend a national overview.
What Works in Offender Supervision
This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.
Testing What Works in Probation: Replicating HOPE
NIJ's Eric Martin discusses the Institute's ongoing evaluation of the HOPE program for drug-involved offenders.
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Crime File: Drugs - Treating Offenders
1990
This Crime File video portrays the shock-incarceration, boot camp regime for drug offenders at the Butler facility in New York State, followed by a panel's assessment of the effectiveness of such programs.
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