Line Drawing
This report examines the relationship of jurisdictional age to serious crime and it reviews the experiences of states that have previously changed their jurisdictional age laws. Next, the report addresses the cost considerations involved in these policy changes and it describes the types of detailed cost-benefit analyses that New York should undertake to project their effects on shifting court caseloads and the number of youth likely to be placed in various supervision programs and placement settings. Continue reading Line Drawing
Evaluation of the Cure Violence Model
With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Research and Evaluation worked with the Center for Court Innovation (CCI) to design and implement an evaluation of the “Cure Violence” model of gun violence reduction. Continue reading Evaluation of the Cure Violence Model
Daily Mail—Latest Victim of Sinister ‘Knockout Game’?
CBS reports that in Pennsylvania, on teacher was hit so hard he collapsed head first on a concrete curb. A man from New York City was punched and knocked out cold. Jeffrey Butts of John Jay College told CBS that he thinks the game is popular amongst teenagers trying to prove their manhood but who in the end just prove that they are ‘still children.’ Continue reading Daily Mail—Latest Victim of Sinister ‘Knockout Game’?
Christian Science Monitor—’Knockout Game’
The lack of data conclusively tying the incidents to racism should preclude people from drawing inferences, Jeffrey Butts, a researcher at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told a New York radio station on Monday, “because that encourages you to think about this as a racial behavior” when it may be more about “the age of the perpetrators … [and] social class.” Continue reading Christian Science Monitor—’Knockout Game’
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