Monday, December 2 2024:

• The effect of pollution on crime: Evidence from data on particulate matter and ozone, Jesse Burkhardt et al. November, 2019. "We find a robust positive effect of increased air pollution on violent crimes, and specifically assaults, but no relationship between increases in air pollution and property crimes."
• Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime, Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth, and Lutz Sager. April, 2018. "The results suggest that exposure to elevated levels of air pollution is associated with increased crime rates...the effect is stronger for types of crime which tend to be less severe and...appears to be unevenly distributed across resident income groups."
• Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice, Susan L. Prescott et al. January, 2024. "Black people have the highest incarceration rates in the US, and given the emerging research on structural racism in food inequalities, including the clustering of fast food outlets...the topic should be more prominent within biopsychosocial discourse."
• Cancer Mortality in Louisiana's Correctional System, 2015-2021, Totadri Dhimal et al. November, 2024. "The cancer-specific [age-specific death rate] was 158 per 100,000 incarcerated individuals compared with 168 per 100,000 among nonincarcerated Louisiana residents and 149 per 100,000 in the US."

Friday, November 29 2024:

• Disability rights and disability justice in prison: the limits of state-protected rights and the possibilities of mutual support, Stephen Meyers. September, 2024. "The research subjects not only revealed the limits of disability rights in prison, but ways in which corrections officers used accommodations and personal assistance as means of harassing [the] disabled..."
• Equity for Whom? How Private Equity and the Punishment Bureaucracy Exploit Disabled People, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. November, 2024. "We are already seeing such an expansion of mass incarceration via criminalization and reinstitutionalization across the country in efforts to push more people experiencing mental illness and houselessness into coercive interventions."
• Factors Associated With the Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in US Jails, Elizabeth Flanagan Balawajder et al. September, 2024. "In this study, few jails indicated offering frontline treatments despite being well positioned to reach individuals with an opioid use disorder."
• "I Don't Believe You, So You Might as Well Get Used to It": The Myth of PREA Zero Tolerance in Texas Prisons, Trans Pride Initiative. July, 2018. "If the national [PREA] data is appalling, the data provided by [Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice] is even more atrocious...98% to 99% of all reports are either unsubstantiated or fabrications."
• Understanding How Supervision Conditions are Set for People on Parole and Probation, Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. April, 2024. "The overall driving factor in setting conditions appeared to be routine, indicating that conditions are not individualized to the person."
• State Courts Play a Key Role in American Life, Pew Charitable Trusts. October, 2024. "State courts in the U.S. handle approximately 66 million cases each year--more than twice the annual number of arrests (8 million) and traffic stops (20 million), combined."

Monday, November 18 2024:

• The Drug Treatment Debate: Why Accessible and Voluntary Treatment Wins Out Over Forced, Drug Policy Alliance. September, 2024. "People who rightfully feel violated when private health information is shared with courts or law enforcement, are unlikely to be fully transparent with their service provider...they are also less likely to seek support in the future."
• Cautionary jails: Deconstructing the three "C"s of jail construction arguments, Prison Policy Initiative. February, 2024. "Greene County, Missouri, for instance, built a new 552-bed jail in 2001. This was supposed to resolve their capacity needs for at least a decade; however, within just 2 years, the jail had surpassed capacity again."
• Stop Cop Cities; Invest in Public Health Solutions, Human Impact Partners. October, 2024. "As of February 17, 2024, 69 police training facility projects were documented across the US...55 had confirmed costs ranging from $999,000 to a staggering $415 million."
• Zombie politics: The return of failed criminal legal system policies in 2023 - and how to fight back, Prison Policy Initiative. January, 2024. "Many lawmakers believe that jails and prisons will provide treatment for opioid users - in fact, incarceration increases overdose risk, and few people receive treatment inside."