There is no credible evidence that demonstrates transferring youth into adult court reduces crime or recidivism. There is, however, considerable, disturbing research showing the physical and psychological harm that comes to the youngsters in an adult jail.
Posts Tagged “criminal justice”
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Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: Baltimore, criminal justice, Diana Morris, juvenile justice, pretrial detention, prison
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Increasing numbers of Europeans travel, work, and study in other EU member states—yet they are surprised to find that rights they had assumed would be available to them are not uniformly accorded across the EU.
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A new report sets basic human rights standards that Latin America must abide by when tackling the region’s growing crime rates. It calls into question the idea that "mano dura" (iron fist) policies are necessary and effective.
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Stanley Ibe of the Open Society Justice Initiative discusses the shocking, widespread levels of torture, rape, and murder at the hands of police in Nigeria, and what can be done about it.
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Lawyer, journalist, and Open Society Institute fellow Amy Bach has been honored for her book investigating the chronic failings of a profoundly dysfunctional U.S. criminal justice system.
Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: Adam Culbreath, Amy Bach, criminal justice, Soros Justice Fellowship
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Because reform does away with some of the mainstays of Mexico’s inefficient and abusive law enforcement machinery, some politicians are beginning to blame it for a worrisome but decade-old rise in crime.
Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: Ciudad Juarez, crime, criminal justice, Felipe Calderón, Fernando Gómez Mont, Mexico, Robert Varenik
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The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Padilla v. Kentucky completely changes the landscape for immigrants facing criminal charges.
Posted in: Justice, Rights & Equality, United States
Topics: criminal justice, immigration, Maria Teresa Rojas
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This week on the public radio program This American Life, 2009 Soros Justice Fellow Nancy Mullane presents the story of Don Cronk, a man who has served 27 years of a sentence of "life with the possibility of parole" for first-degree murder in a California prison.
Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Karynn Fish, parole
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Overincarceration has been an unresolved issue for the past 25 years, but a new framework of thinking is on the horizon.
Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Nkechi Taifa, overincarceration