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Fact Sheet: Percent Change in Incarceration and Crime Rates - State by State 1994-2004
- Justice Policy Institute, Feb 2, 2007
Percent Change in Incarceration and Crime Rates, 1998-2007
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Effective Investments in Public Safety: Unemployment, Wages, and the Crime Rate
- Justice Policy Institute, Feb 2, 2007
Research studies focusing on unemployment rates and market wages have found relationships with the crime rate in the United States.
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Effective Investments in Public Safety: Drug Treatment
- Justice Policy Institute, Feb 2, 2007
Whereas in 1980 only about 8% of federal and state prisoners were incarcerated for a drug offense, in 2003, 55 percent of the federal prison population and 20 percent of prisoners in state facilities were incarcerated for drug offenses.
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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.
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Fact Sheet: Response to FBI's Uniform Crime Report
- Justice Policy Institute, Oct 1, 2006
The recently released 2005 Uniform Crime Reports, a Justice Department survey administered by the FBI that shows national arrests trends, have renewed concern that crime is on the rise.
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Fact Sheet: Rising Juvenile Crime in Perspective
- Justice Policy Institute, Oct 1, 2006
The 2005 FBI Uniform Crime Reports were released and some media noted concerns of a 19 percent increase in juvenile murder arrests.
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Crime Statistics and the Washington, D.C. "Crime Emergency:" What is the Real Crisis and How Should We Respond
- Jason Ziedenberg, Sep 29, 2006
Crime, the causes of crime, and potential solutions to the Districts’ crime problems are more complicated and nuanced than they have been portrayed by law enforcement and politicians during the “crime emergency” debate.
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You are Safer than You Think: Crime and Public Opinion on Fear of Crime
- Justice Policy Institute, Aug 1, 2006
While the overall crime picture in Washington D.C. has not changed dramatically, the proportion of registered voters concerned about crime has surged, according to polling conducted by The Washington Post.
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DC Crime Emergency In Context
- Justice Policy Institute, Jul 1, 2006
The Mayor’s emergency proposal to crackdown on D.C. youth through an historic erosion of youth protections, and increased surveillance and policing is not justified by crime data or best practices for enhancing public safety.
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Factsheet: Crime, Race and Juvenile Justice Policy in Perspective
- Justice Policy Institute, Oct 3, 2005
African American youth arrest rates for drug violations, assaults and weapon offenses are higher than arrest rates for white youth—even though both report similar rates of delinquency.
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2005 Crime Rise in Context
- Justice Policy Institute, Oct 1, 2005
This factsheet includes bindings based on a longer timeline as context for policy choices that may impact crime and public safety.
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Ganging Up on Crime?
- Justice Policy Institute, Apr 11, 2005
The Bush administration and Congress support huge cuts to programs that serve youth, which is likely to do more to destabilize communities and aggravate crime than promote public safety.
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