A BJS reportreports the number of state and federal prisoners decreased last year by 17,264. This has been called a small step in the right direction (since there’s no reason the US should lead the world in incarceration rate and numbers). But what I haven’t heard, and it seems relevant, is that this decrease can…
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SafeKeepersis a video series profiling law enforcement officials who’ve been on the front lines of the drug war and mass incarceration. (in partnership with LEAP)
Why TV isn’t reality. And done in such a charming nerdy way.
“Did you say tenured-track professor in New York City!?” Why, yes I did. My department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration) is hiring 3 (count ’em, three) tenure-track assistant-professor lines. Two are police-related; one a more general criminal-justice (or it might be the other way around, but…
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My friend, Neill Franklin of LEAP, spells it out (and does so far better than I could have).
Ironically, at least this time, better than you might think!
Who died in the line of duty, ten years ago.
In my partial blog-writing absence (though in case you’re worried, all is well here in Astoria, Queens, post storm — we’re high and dry and with electricity) I wanted to feature a few promising up-and-coming researchers I’m excited about. The first of the young-upstart rising-star whipper-snappers is Jan Haldipur (his email). Jan, an ethnographer from…
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If Cannibal Cop is a minus point or two (you just don’t see headlines like this too often)… there’s “hero cop” to counterbalance the bad (or, as one of my students said while watching the video of him holding his bullet wound while shooting the criminal: “Damn, he’s going O.G.!”) I guess, for the NYPD,…
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