In the past 10 years, state legislatures from across the political spectrum have passed or
considered reforms aimed at reducing prison populations. The breadth of reform challenges …

In 2014, nearly 5 million people were supervised in the community on probation or parole;
yet, little research evidence exists indicating whether supervision is a cost-effective strategy …

Executive summary Justice reinvestment (JR) is an emerging field in the Australian criminal
justice landscape. It is a data-driven approach to reducing criminal justice system …

At the justice system level, aspects of the overrepresentation of youth of color include law
enforcement practices that focus on and respond differently to young men of color and that …

Most states' prison populations are at historic highs after decades of extraordinary growth; in
36 states, the prison population has more than tripled as a share of the state population …

In the wake of the recent economic crisis state policymakers have begun to consider
redirecting expenditures on corrections as a way to trim state budgets. Recent attention has …

After years of tough-on-crime politics and increasingly punitive sentencing in the United
States, economic, political, and social shifts in the 21st century have created new …

After four decades of an expanding carceral state, political leaders are increasingly
championing proposals framed as smart—rather than simply tough—on crime. Yet as states …

Over the past half-century, the number of adults under criminal justice supervision increased
precipitously in some Western countries, with carceral control in the United States reaching …

Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Tenth Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of
juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies …