Research Library:
Our mission is to empower activists, journalists, and policymakers to shape effective criminal justice policy, so we go beyond our original reports and analyses to curate a database of virtually all the empirical criminal justice research available online.
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- Community Impact (163) Impact of justice system on communities, includes housing, employment, schools
- Conditions of Confinement (267)
- Crime and Crime Rates (329) Information on type of crime/frequency
- Death Penalty (145) Data, policy, and analysis of the death penalty
- Disability (10)
- Drug Policy (167) Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- Economics of Incarceration (212) The economic drivers and consequences of mass incarceration
- Education (93) Correctional education and the school-to-prison pipeline
- Families (101) The justice system's impact on families.
- Felon Disenfranchisement (84) Barring people from the polls because of criminal convictions
- General (72) Atlases, indices, and broad-based source material
- Gun Control (44) Statistics on gun violence, suggestions for gun control
- Health impact (95) Public health, access to healthcare, and mortality
- Immigration (44) Detainment practices and statistics
- Incarceration Rates Growth Causes (412)
- International Incarceration Comparisons (52)
- Jails (169) Information and data on jails
- LGBT (7)
- Mental Health (105) Policy and practice of mental health
- Police and Policing (145)
- Poverty and wealth (48)
- Pretrial Detention (62) Exploring cost and outcome of detaining people before trial or deportation (ie. instead of bail or other alternatives)
- Prison Gerrymandering (33) Research on prison-based gerrymandering (see also www.prisonersofthecensus.org)
- Privatization (49)
- Probation and parole (26)
- Public Opinion (54)
- Race and ethnicity (213)
- Recidivism and Reentry (271) What makes people more or less likely to succeed upon release?
- Sentencing Policy and Practices (193) Relating to sentencing policy.
- Sexual offenses (40)
- Trials (149) Statistics about the court system and its processes
- Women (109)
- Youth (393) Criminal justice and young persons, the prison system’s effect on their lives
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Some of the most recently added reports are:
Monday, July 9 2018:
- The Impact of Early Representation: An Analysis of the San Francisco Public Defender's Pre-Trial Release Unit, California Policy Lab. June, 2018.
- Parole Revocation in Connecticut: opportunities to reduce incarceration, Samuel Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic. September, 2017.
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