Author: JeffreyButts

Research Professor and Director, Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Monographs & Reports

Color Contrast: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in New York City Law Enforcement

Researchers conducted spatiotemporal analyses combining population data with publicly available crime-related data, including arrests, complaints, and summonses, to create geographically specific indicators for a range of crimes to investigate whether criminal justice processing varies according to the race and ethnicity of justice-involved individuals and the demographic profile of their neighborhoods. Continue reading Color Contrast: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in New York City Law Enforcement

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National Print

‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases

Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that there was no discernible migrant crime wave. “I would interpret a ‘wave’ to mean something significant, meaningful, and a departure from the norm,” he said. “So far, what we have are individual incidents of crime.” Continue reading ‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Not Supported by Data, Despite High-Profile Cases

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