Research tagged with Education

The Education of D.C.: How Washington D.C.’s investments in education can help increase public safety.: Paul Ashton, Justice Policy Institute, Feb 15, 2012; This brief examines the intersection of education and public safety in Washington, D.C.
Education Under Arrest: The Case Against Police in Schools: Amanda Petteruti, Justice Policy Institute, Nov 15, 2011; The presence of school resource officers in schools, drives up arrests, causes lasting harm to youth, and disrupts the educational process.
Finding Direction: Expanding Criminal Justice Options by Considering Policies of Other Nations: Amanda Petteruti, Justice Policy Institute, Apr 20, 2011; Amidst a fiscal crisis and dropping crime rates, policymakers in the U.S. ought to consider looking outside its borders for examples of effective criminal justice policies.
Money Well Spent: How Positive Social Investments Will Reduce Incarceration Rates, Improve Public Safety, and Promote the Well-Being of Communities.: Sarah Lyons and Nastassia Walsh, Sep 16, 2010; More people in the United States are being arrested and incarcerated even though crime has dropped, with the consequences of these policies being felt most by low-income communities.
A Capitol Concern: The Disproportionate Impact of the Justice System on Low-Income Communities in D.C.: Sarah Lyons and Nastassia Walsh, Jul 27, 2010; D.C. has the greatest income inequality of any major city in the country, suffering from major economic and racial disparities that contribute to high rates of justice-involvement.
Education and Public Safety Policy Brief: Justice Policy Institute, Aug 29, 2007; Graduation rates were associated with positive public safety outcomes. Researchers have found that a 5 percent increase in male high school graduation rates would produce an annual savings of almost $5 billion in crime-related expenses.
Effective Investments in Public Safety: Education: Justice Policy Institute, Feb 2, 2007; There is evidence that suggests that education and graduation rates may relate to crime rates, and this new research comes at a time when education programs are receiving less and less funding, and more money is being spent to incarceration—a public safety policy that has not been proven to lower crime rates.
Treatment or Incarceration: National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment: Doug McVay, Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, Jan 30, 2004; This policy brief will survey research that shows that, on the whole, providing drug offenders with treatment is a more cost-effective way of dealing with substance addicted drug and nonviolent offenders than prison.
Treatment or Incarceration: National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment: Doug McVay, Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, Jan 30, 2004; This policy brief will survey research that shows that, on the whole, providing drug offenders with treatment is a more cost-effective way of dealing with substance addicted drug and nonviolent offenders than prison.
Education and Incarceration: Bruce Western, Vincent Schiraldi & Jason Ziedenberg, Aug 1, 2003; As of May, 2003, 21 states were considering proposals that would affect funding levels for K-12 education including across the board cuts, reducing transportation funds, slashing state aid for teachers’ salaries and lowering per pupil state aid.
Is Maryland's System of Higher Education Suffering Because of Prison Expenditures?: Vincent Schiraldi, Jun 1, 2003; In a state which ranks fifth in the country in per capita wealth, Maryland's expenditures on higher education are not even in the top half of American states. In fact, in 1997, Maryland ranked 33rd in unversity funding, barely above the bottom third of all states.
Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and its Impact on African American Men: Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg, Sep 1, 2002; The mild recession that began in 2001, aggravated by the events of September 11th, put state revenue into a tailspin in 2002, resulting in a $40 billion budget shortfall between what states planned to spend and the revenue they expected to raise.
Schools and Suspensions: Self-Reported Crime and the Growing Use of Suspensions: Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg, Sep 1, 2001; In 1998, in the wake of tragic shootings in Jonesboro, Arkansas, West Paducah, Kentucky, Pearl, Mississippi and other communities, the Justice Policy Institute sought to inject some context and data analysis into the discussion of school violence.
School House Hype: Two Years Later: Kim Brooks, Vincent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, Apr 1, 2000; In this report, JPI compares the notion that children faced growing risks of violent death by gunfire with the statistical reality of school shootings.
Class Dismissed: Higher Education vs. Corrections During the Wilson Years: Dan Macallair, Khaled Taqi-Eddin and Vincent Schiraldi, Nov 3, 1998; An increase in funding for Higher Education represents a step in the right direction, but this is an unusual year in that California had a 4 billion-dollar surplus at the end of the 1997-1998 budget.
New York State of Mind: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998: Robert Gangi, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg, Oct 1, 1998; Last spring, just days before New Yorkers were to mark the 25th anniversary of the state’s Rockefeller Drug Laws - a mandatory sentencing scheme that requires long prison terms for the possession or sale of a relatively small amount of drugs - Gov. George Pataki announced a series of vetoes to the state budget.
School House Hype: School Shootings and the Real Risks Kids Face in America: Elizabeth Donahue, Vincent Schiraldi, Jason Ziedenberg, Jul 29, 1998; During the 1997-98 school year, the American public was riveted by the images: small town and suburban schools taped off by police-lines, paramedics rushing to wheel tiny bodies away on gurneys and kids being carted off in hand-cuffs.
Trading Classrooms for Cell Blocks: Destructive Policies Eroding D.C. Communities: Tara-Jen Ambrosio and Vincent Schiraldi, Feb 1, 1997; While public higher education funding plummets to record lows, spending for corrections is at an all-time high. The nation's capital is funding prisons at the expense of higher education and the consequences are devastating for District communities.
From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: A National Perspective: Tara-Jen Ambrosio and Vincent Schiraldi, Jan 1, 1997; Americans will soon be forced to spend their tax-free education funds on an ineffective, costly criminal justice system.

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