Research
Right on Crime | January 28, 2020
Solitary confinement for brief periods is occasionally necessary to protect the safety of both people who are incarcerated and the staff responsible for them. However, absent appropriate limitations, it is subject to being used too frequently.
Marc Levin, Right on Crime's vice president of criminal justice, explains how solitary confinement poli...
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Right on Crime | January 6, 2020
Transitioning from being a youth typically living with a parent to establishing self- sufficiency as a mature adult is a challenging period, and how a person handles that transition greatly impacts the rest of their life trajectory.
This report highlights the challenges inherent with addressing criminal and behavioral maladies among emerging adu...
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Right on Crime | December 23, 2019
Parole offices can play the role of the coordinating body for workforce development to improve public safety and employment outcomes. By improving access to tangible resources and services for their caseloads, parole offices enhance their ability to promote attachment to protective factors like employment and housing, reliably reduce recidivism, an...
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Right on Crime | December 18, 2019
Many states have experienced stubbornly high rates of revocations from community supervision in recent years, especially for technical violations. This paper examines several of the best policies and practices to address these violations.
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Derek M. Cohen | November 7, 2019
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Michael Hughes | July 30, 2019
The use of force by police creates some of the widest chasms between officers and citizens. Training must build confidence and offer realistic scenarios. This approach sets up appropriate responses to actual circumstances.
Key points:
Adopt and inculcate the Integrating Communications,
Assessment, and Tactics training model proposed by...
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Julie Warren | June 17, 2019
Reforms to Tennessee’s community supervision system—including to parole, probation, and community corrections—are necessary and can lead to improvements in the challenges of overcrowding and reentry.
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Thomas Lyons | June 11, 2019
Tom Lyons, Right on Crime's state director for Wisconsin, provides a policy brief of the state's community supervision apparatus and discusses some of its challenges - including the higher-than-average amount of time that people are sentenced to post-prison supervision.
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Right on Crime’s Manager of State Initiates, Greg Glod, discusses the current state of community corrections in Florida. While the use of community supervision is a positive criminal justice tactic, there are areas in which the system can improve. Glod discusses these in order to discover how community supervision can be most effective in order ...
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Randy Petersen | May 23, 2019
When the legislature creates a criminal statute that is
punishable by a fine alone, meaning that incarceration is not a potential
consequence even if the offender is found guilty of the alleged conduct, the
legislature is making the statute’s intended use clear.
It would shock Texans if certain offenses were manipulated as
a “tool”...
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Marc Levin | May 17, 2019
Right on Crime Vice President Marc Levin offers ideas for lawmakers regarding parole. Levin recognizes the benefits to parole and seeks to improve the system to further benefit citizens.
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Marc Levin | May 17, 2019
Right on Crime Vice President Marc Levin proposes innovative ideas to law makers regarding the probation system. By implementing these practices Texas can see a reduction in the number of incarcerated individuals, and an increase in public safety.
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Right on Crime | May 3, 2019
Right on Crime policy analyst Michael Haugen examines various performance-based probation funding models across the country, which base their formulas upon the ability of probation departments to expand supervision programs at the outset, reduce revocations to prison, or both. Doing this, rather than basing funding largely upon the number of peopl...
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Joe Griffin | March 12, 2019
While much attention has been given to Oklahoma’s large prison population, further attention needs to be focused on the fines and fees that fund the state’s criminal justice system on the backs of offenders. Investigating fees and programs in the state’s criminal justice system leaves one with the question: What exactly are these fees paying...
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Right on Crime | March 5, 2019
Right on Crime's Greg Glod, Director of State Initiatives, examines Arizona's broad, and often confusing, mandatory drug sentencing laws.
While many mandatory minimum sentencing laws, particularly for drug offenses, were created to address problems of drug use, abuse, and drug-related criminal offenses, Glod discusses how they have not worked i...
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Right on Crime | May 31, 2018
The decades-long growth in rural pretrial incarceration has taken a toll on taxpayers and individual liberties. The latest research by Marc Levin and Michael Haugen unveils growth contributors and makes evidence-based recommendations to improve public safety while reducing the number of defendants held on pretrial detention. Solutions outlined in t...
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Randy Petersen | February 23, 2018
In this new report policing expert Randy Petersen outlines the conservative case for policing reforms. Having spent 21 years in law enforcement, Petersen introduces four recommended areas for reform. These areas are police militarization, their place in the community, hiring and training, and lawmaking. This report recommends that in order to bette...
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Right on Crime | May 9, 2017
As the following graphs indicate, recidivism rates are much lower for state jail felony offenders who take probation in Harris County as compared those who go to state jail.
One of the prevailing issues found throughout the state is that many people are opting for state jail—which may only be a few months given the credit for time spent in ...
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Right on Crime | May 3, 2017
This new policy perspective from Derek Cohen and Haley Holik examines Texas' practice of trying 17 year olds in adult courts, stating research indicates that the juvenile system provides the most effective tools to punish and rehabilitate most youthful offenders. Cohen and Holik conclude by recommending that Texas "raise the age" of criminal res...
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Right on Crime | April 19, 2017
Our senior policing researcher Randy Petersen considers the current state of research indicating that certain pre-booking or pre-arrest diversion programs show promise in reducing recidivism.
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