Recent Issues
Issues in the current volume are available to view below.
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Themes: (1) risk assessments and discrimination (2) economic conditions of a community and reintegration (3) How can Black police officers reduce aggressive policing by White officers? (4) police training and improving police-citizen interactions (5) prosecutorial decision making and the charging of accused people (6) general deterrence and criminal justice policy (7) unreasonable conditions of release and bail courts (8) criminal justice systems and punishment prior to an offence
Themes: (1) How should arrest rates across racialized groups be interpreted (2) race and "arrest records" (3) “undocumented” immigrants and crime rates (4) crime involvement and immigrant neighbourhoods (5) effective criminal justice responses to a violation of probation (6) can planting grass stop crime? (7) Is urban greenspace associated with crime? (8) security classifications of youths
Themes: (1) the negative impact of imprisonment on finding employment (2) “Tough on crime” vs “soft on crime” judges (3) Fear of police by Black residents (4) How might delinquency programs be made more effective? (5) Did COVID-19 create an increase in domestic violence? (6) Are sex offenders especially likely to repeat their offences? (7) How does pretrial detention affect the outcome of criminal cases? (8) Pretrial detention and the punitiveness of the criminal justice system
Themes: (1) Police networks and police misconduct (2) Black Americans and reducing police funding (3) Prison design and prisoner well-being (4) “Liberal” bail laws and crime (5) Short prison sentences vs probation (6) Long prison sentences and the punitive impacts on Black prisoners (7) Why Black women achieve higher levels of education than Black men (8) Nearby homicides and the affects on young women
Themes: (1) Indigenous youth over-representation in Australia’s criminal justice system (2) judges and the high rate of Indigenous imprisonment in Canada (3) can “streetworker” programs reduce gang violence (4) Would crime decrease if prisoners didn’t serve their full sentences (5) early release from prison and crime (6) Are sex offender registries useful (7) link s between court-imposed conditions for pretrial release and offending (8) how to improve community corrections
Themes: (1) American news organizations and mass incarceration (2) Police departments' views of ordinary citizens (3) “School resource officers” [police attached to ordinary schools] (4) Impact of school suspensions across racialized groups (5) Political affiliations and policing (6) Relationship of stable housing to criminal records (7) Laws prohibiting employers from asking about criminal records (8) Beyond the laws related to sentencing and imprisonment in understanding incarceration rates