Free journal summarizing topical research in criminal justice

Themes: supervision after prison; spare time and crime rates; global youth crime reduction; city maintenance as crime prevention; police in schools; pretrial risk assessment; police-youth interactions...

Themes: hidden racial inequality; diversity and juries; police-citizen interactions; predictive scales and the misclassification of prisoners; police response options; race and firearm prohibitions; r...

The Multiple Realities of Legal Objects: Accounting for ‘Ontological Discretion’ in Criminal Courts

A 'three strikes' anti-crime policy is contradicted by experience and evidence; such policies are expensive and ineffectual.

Proposals to restrict bail in Canada using the "Notwithstanding clause' are contrary to the evidence as well as inconsistent with rights.

Proposals to restrict bail in Canada using the "Notwithstanding clause' are contrary to the evidence as well as inconsistent with rights.

Both logic and research evidence show that harsher sentences are not effective in reducing crime - but they are very expensive.

A CCLA report shows that the public conversation on bail does not match the research evidence, which is that bail is too hard to get.

Free journal summarizing topical research in criminal justice

If our political leaders were truly concerned about crime, they might want to examine the evidence demonstrating that their preferred policies would actually be more likely to increase crime.

Themes: (1) Police networks and police misconduct (2) Black Americans and reducing police funding (3) Prison design and prisoner well-being (4) “Liberal” bail laws and crime (5) Short prison sentences...

A free subscription journal providing an accessible look at the most interesting, high quality criminological research currently being published.