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2012
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To Build a Better Criminal Justice System: 25 Experts Envision the Next 25 Years of Reform
By Mauer, Marc, editor; Epstein, Kate, editor.
The Sentencing Project (Washington, DC).
It is hoped that this volume sparks a conversation regarding the adoption of a “strategy that emphasizes opportunity rather than punishment as the guiding theme of our vision for public safety … [these essays] are broad-ranging both in vision and strategy. They contain the perspectives of leading thinkers in the field … [who] look to a day where public safety is not premised in maintaining a world-record level of incarceration. But there is a diversity of views on how we might get to that point”... Read More
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68 pages
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2011
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Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress
Smart on Crime Coalition (Washington, DC).
This publication “incorporates cost-effective, evidence-based solutions to address the worst problems in our [criminal justice] system” (p. ii). This report may be full of recommendations, but these provide a look at the current state of criminal justice in the United States. Sixteen chapters follow an executive summary and summary of recommendations: overcriminalization of conduct, overfederalization of criminal law, and exercise of enforcement discretion; asset forfeiture; federal investigatio... Read More
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317 pages
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2011
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Finding Direction: Expanding Criminal Justice Options by Considering Policies of Other Nations
By Petteruti, Amanda; Fenster, Jason.
Justice Policy Institute (Washington, DC).
Individuals that are interested in or charged with reducing correctional costs needs to read this report. This publication "concentrate[s] on current practices and structures that could realistically be changed, and models from other comparison nations that could be replicated or adapted, to reduce incarceration in the U.S.” (p. 4). Contents of this publication include: introduction; similarities between nations make policy opportunities possible; the U.S. leads the world in incarceration, but t... Read More
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84 pages
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2011
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Justice Expenditures and Employment, 1982-2007 - Statistical Tables
By Kyckelhahn, Tracey.
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington, DC).
Justice expenditures and employment for corrections, police protection, and judicial and legal services over the period of 1982 through 2007 are shown in 5-year increments. Data tables cover: total expenditures by level of government and by justice function; distribution of judicial and legal services, police protection, and corrections expenditures by level of government; per capita expenditures by function; total justice employment by level of government and justice function; employment distri... Read More
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12 pages
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2011
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Environmental Scan 2011
National Institute of Corrections Information Center (Aurora, CO).
“Beginning in the late 1990’s, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Information Center began scanning social, economic and corrections issues to inform the development of programs and services offered by NIC. This report, now in its 6th edition, has continued to evolve into a popular tool that is also used by corrections practitioners to inform their work in jails, prisons and community corrections. Since there are many issues beyond what is addressed in this environmental scan that poten... Read More
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40 pages
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2008
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Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex
By Petteruti, Amanda; Walsh, Natassia.
Open Society Institute-New York (New York, NY); Drug Policy Alliance (New York, NY).
Justice Policy Institute (Washington).
The need to "permanently delegitimize, destabilize, and dismantle" the prison industrial complex (PIC) in the U.S. is explained. Sections contained in this report include: introduction; ten years by the numbers -- imprisonment, crime, policing, and spending over the last decade; profiting from prisons -- a risky proposition for both corporations and communities; policing -- accountability, federalization, and surveillance; the PIC in action -- an analysis of the criminalization of drug use, pov... Read More
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40 p.
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2008
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Reorienting Progressive Perspectives for Twenty-First Century Punishment Realities
By Berman, Douglas A..
Twenty-first century practices of punishment are looked at so "progressives can develop a more effective blueprint for initiating desperately needed changes to modern American criminal justice systems" (p. 2) This article is comprised of these sections: taking stock of modern incarceration explosion in the U.S.; the distracting (and counter-productive) focus on innocence, death and disparities; ideas for reorienting progressive punishment advocacy; and conclusion.... Read More
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20 p.
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2005
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The Emergence of Collaboration as the Preferred Approach in Criminal Justice
By Carter, Madeline M., ed..
State Justice Institute (Alexandria, VA); National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
National Resource Center on Collaboration in Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems(Silver Spring, MD); Center for Effective Public Policy (Silver Spring, MD).
This report "suggests that justice can be more effectively served when those tasked with carrying it out define their roles, responsibilities, and relationship to one another differently and work together in pursuit of shared visions, missions, and goals" (p.1). Sections comprising this document are: background; the dilemma -- forming collaboratives in an adversarial system; what we know about collaboration; how collaboration is applied in other public policy arenas; the application of the coll... Read More
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10 p.
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2005
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Project Guide: Tribal Justice System Assessment
By Martin, Mark.
National Institute of Corrections. Native American and Alaskan Technical Assistance Project (NAATAP) (Washington, DC); U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance (Washington, DC).
Justice Planners International (JPI) Demarest, NJ).
"[D]irection to tribal jurisdictions interested in conducting a justice system assessment for the purposes of addressing systemic issues raised in the development of detention and correctional facilities" is provided (p. 7). This guide is comprised of the following sections: introduction; what a justice assessment is; impact of the justice system assessment on detention and corrections bed space needs; approach to conducting a system assessment; steps in the assessment process; unique character... Read More
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24 p.
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2000
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Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, January 2000
National Institute of Corrections. Jails Division (Longmont, CO).
This meeting focused primarily on topics related to the role of the jail in the local criminal justice system. Contents include: meeting highlights; justice system coordination and cooperation -- how the jail benefits and the system is improved; criminal justice coordination and cooperation; issues in defining and re-defining the jail's mission; role of the jail in contributing to the efficiency of the local criminal justice system; community oriented policing; roundtable discussion of implicati... Read More
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88 p.
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1997
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The Prevalence of Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders in the Criminal Justice System
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC); U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (Washington, DC); U..
National GAINS Center (Delmar, NY).
Having a substance abuse disorder is related to a higher likelihood of having a co-occurring mental illness. Similarly, having a mental illness increases the probability of having a co-occurring substance abuse disorder. This paper details the occurrences of both disorders in the nation's jails, prisons, and community corrections agencies.... Read More
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2 p.
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1996
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Guide to a Criminal Justice System Assessment: A Work in Progress
By Burke, Peggy; Cushman, Robert; Ney, Becki.
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
Center for Effective Public Policy (Silver Spring, MD); National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
A system assessment is a collaborative effort between a jurisdiction, the National Institute of Corrections, and consultants to develop a shared understanding of how an existing sanctioning system works. This guide defines what a system assessment and its multiple dimensions are, discusses the approach to the system assessment, and describes how a system assessment can be conducted. Jurisdictions taking part in an assessment can expect to: 1. have two, three-day site visits by an assessment team... Read More
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134 p.
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