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For today's Crime and Justice News, see http://thecrimereport.org Supported by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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CJJ took part in the 4th annual H.F. Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice in New York City on Feb. 2 and 3. See http://thecrimereport.org for more details.

We will do criminal justice programs for journalists at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in Baltimore in June. Watch this site for details.

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In November 2007, CJJ added chapters on prosecutors, guns, and domestic violence to its reporters guide on covering crime and justice. You can view the guide at this site:

www.justicejournalism.org/crimeguide

Criminal Justice Journalists, a non-profit, member supported organization was founded in 1997. Our goal is to improve the quality and accuracy of news reporting on crime, law enforcement, and the judicial system. In January 2001, CJJ affiliated with the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology of the University of Pennsylvania. The center was founded by Jerry Lee, president of WBEB-FM in Philadelphia, and is headed by criminologist Lawrence W. Sherman. For more information, see www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee

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The Cops and Courts Reporters discussion list was reactivated on April 10, 2007. Journalists not already on the list may join by sending a message to CCR-on@mail.list.com

Julie Bykowicz of the Baltimore Sun and Kevin Vaughan of the Rocky Mountain News joined the CJJ board in 2008. See their bios in the Who We are section of this site.

 

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With support from the Ford Foundation, CJJ issued in the spring of 2003 the first installment of a guide to journalists on covering basic issues in crime and justice: the police beat, drugs, juvenile justice, crime victims, ethnic and racial questions, and ethical issues. Court chapters were added in 2005 and prosecutors, guns, and domestic violence was covered in 2007. The guide includes story ideas and important sources. It is posted on the Web site of the Institute for Justice and Journalism of the University of Southern California, a collaborator on the project. You can see it at www.justicejournalism.org/crimeguide

Future additions will cover other significant subjects, including capital punishment, sentencing, and prisons. Please send any comments to Ted Gest, tgest@sas.upenn.edu

CJJ collaborated with Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) to write a guide to journalists for interpreting crime statistics. We cover the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, the Bureau of Justice Statistics's National Crime Victimization Survey, and other key statistical sources for reporters.
The guide is available to CJJ members at the IRE member cost: $15. The guide is being revised in 2007-08.

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Criminal Justice Journalists met in October 2002 with the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Minneapolis. The meeting included sessions on such topics as racial profiling, excessive use of force by police, terrorism and the media, and news coverage of suicide. You will also find material there on our April 2001 meeting in Washington, D..C., and and our November 2000 meeting with the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, where we sponsored programs on media access to prisons, the declining crime rate, and California's Proposition 36 that will divert many drug offenders to treatment programs.

See the Events page for summaries of these meetings and information on how to reach sources.

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