Scottish Office Statistics - State THE STATE. crime, the courts and prisons, firearms, liquor licensing Defence International Development. crime and Justice. Other National Statistics. Links. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/state.htm
Extractions: CRM 331 Corrections : W '04 Required Reading [links go to Amazon.com] Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind. Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment . New Press 1-56584-726-1 Robert Johnson. Hard Time . Wadsworth, 3 rd ed. 0534507174 Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States . Vintage Books; 0679751319 Recommended Books Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing . Knopf; 0375726624 Jeffrey Ross and Stephen Richards. Behind Bars: Surviving Prison . Alpha; 0028643518 Jeffrey Ross and Stephen Richards. Convict Criminology . Wadsworth Pub Co; 0534574335 Richard Moran, Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair . Knopf (2002); 0375410597 Great article on what happens to someone freed from 10 years on death row after DNA evidence clears him ($300,000, depression, etc) Texas executes a convicted killer whose lawyer suffered from mental illness and was repeatedly disciplined by the state bar Margaret Edds, An Expendable Man: The Near Execution of Earl Washington Jr.
Extractions: CRM 331 Corrections : F '03 (current version) Required Reading [links go to Amazon.com] Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind. Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment . New Press 1-56584-726-1 Robert Johnson. Hard Time . Wadsworth, 3 rd ed. 0534507174 Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States . Vintage Books; 0679751319 Recommended Books Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing . Knopf; 0375726624 Jeffrey Ross and Stephen Richards. Behind Bars: Surviving Prison . Alpha; 0028643518 Jeffrey Ross and Stephen Richards. Convict Criminology . Wadsworth Pub Co; 0534574335 Richard Moran, Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair . Knopf (2002); 0375410597 Great article on what happens to someone freed from 10 years on death row after DNA evidence clears him ($300,000, depression, etc) Texas executes a convicted killer whose lawyer suffered from mental illness and was repeatedly disciplined by the state bar Margaret Edds, An Expendable Man: The Near Execution of Earl Washington Jr.
Extractions: by Malcolm Howard JANUARY 13, 2000: Standing next to a stark, black-and-white chart showing the number of prisoners behind bars in Colorado, activist Christie Donner rattles off statistics that she says support her call for a moratorium on new prison construction in the state. 'Prison construction now takes up one-third of the state's capital construction budget,' Donner told a group of about three dozen residents gathered at downtown's St. Mary's Cathedral earlier this week. 'And it's been increasing.' Donner spoke as part of a statewide, grass-roots effort to raise support for Senate Bill 00-104. Introduced in the state Senate last week, the bill would forbid new prison construction in the state until 2003. Inmate population quintupled A few of the facts cited during Donner's two-hour talk: The prison moratorium bill, Donner argued, would give lawmakers a chance to stop and look at the real costs of increased incarceration. Among other things, the proposed bill would create a 17-member task force that would study the causes behind the state's massive prison boom and suggest possible countermeasures. Made up of experts appointed by various sectors in the criminal justice system, the task force would study minority representation in prison, the availability of drug treatment programs behind bars and the role of parole policies.
STATS It s a crime recidivism has increased since 1983. by the Justice Department, which looked at the behavior of prisoners released from State prisons in 1994. http://www.stats.org/record.jsp?type=news&ID=54
Crime Law Enforcement crime crime Rates, prisons, arrests, and gun control issues and related crime statistics in Forcible Rape stats (Los Angeles) Total Number of http://www.statistics.com/hyperseek.php/Crime/
Scoop: Govt Caught Out On Crime Stats Blunder Until the Police are better equipped to smash these drugdealing gangs then the crime stats will keep heading the wrong way, said Mr Ryall. Ends. In prisons!! http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00225.htm
Extractions: National Law and Order Spokesperson 10 March 2004 Govt caught out on crime stats blunder The Government has been forced into a humiliating backdown over crime statistics released this week, says National's Law and Order spokesperson Tony Ryall. "A press release from the Police Commissioner's office, approved by Police Minister George Hawkins, boasted of a one percent increase in non-cannabis drug offences. In reality, the actual figures show a massive increase of 24.8%," said Mr Ryall. National contacted the Police Commissioner's Office yesterday, seeking an explanation of the official statement. The police then issued an official apology on behalf of the Government late last night. "There has been a 116% increase in hard drug offences since 1999. That is hardly winning the war on drugs, as claimed on Monday. "It defies belief that anyone could believe methamphetamine related crimes have only risen one percent. George Hawkins must be the only person in the country who doesn't know about the 'P' scourge throughout New Zealand. "George Hawkins and the police both gave press conferences but neither corrected these figures. The New Zealand Herald was told that police were optimistic the problem was 'stabilising'.
Poynter Online - Crime Story Resources (Here are some of those stats.) Is your Children of crime. estimates that 2.3 children are affected by the 1.1 million parents incarcerated in prisons or jails http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65270
Poynter Online - Smarter Crime Coverage Online crime stats Better Than Sourcebooks by Jonathan Dube. percent of mothers in state prisons said they the influence of drugs when committing their crime. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65264
Crime And Punishment -- Ready Reference US prisons A Human Rights Watch report examining overcrowding, abuse, and incarcerated juveniles. crime Data, Info, stats and Comparisons I guess I wasn t http://www.open.org/~dallashs/crime.htm
Extractions: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reports on cases and legislation regarding juvenile crimes requiring parents to make restitution and/or face legal action. Each state or local agency can make their own laws about parent responsibility, but the U.S. does not have a national law. Violence as a Biomedical Problem
Crime -- Topic Index Fill, crime Falls, Times Reporter Frets crime reporter Fox Times Relays HalfCocked Anti-Gun stats Glen Justice May 10 Abuse in US prisons Similar to http://www.timeswatch.org/topicindex/C/crime/welcome.asp
Extractions: Crime reporter Fox Butterfield provides a factually thin stew of liberal anti-prison anecdotes: "Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates." March 26 Giving the Losers the First Word The Unborn Victims of Violence Act passed by a wide margin, but Carl Hulse's piece lets the liberal minority have the first word: "Opponents denounced the bill, adopted on a vote of 61 to 38, as an effort to undermine the constitutional right to abortion by recognizing the fetus as a person." September 23 Exoneration Sweeping the Nation?
Statistics Sources Statistics Site; Federal Bureau of prisons Lists many Number Crunchers Precision Journalism crime Rates and Abstract of the United States Selected statistical http://www.cjed.com/rschers_stats.htm
Extractions: Stats Not too long ago the typical sources for statistics on a specific topic were those cited in books or journal articles on that topic. Sometimes the authors presented statistics gathered as a result of their own research while at other times they provided statistics gleaned from other sources. Because of the time involved in getting books and articles to press, it was not unusual for students especially to rely on what were often dated statistics. Today there is less justification for term papers and other research projects to use anything other than the most current data on particular topics. Instead on relying on the national murder or rape rate provided in your three-year-old text book or a five-year-old journal article, go directly to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report online and get the most current data. Get crime and prison statistics directly from another country's government page. See what data are gathered about firearms from groups and organizations on every side of the issue. The list is obviously endless and that means that whether you are gathering supplementary statistics in conjunction with your own original research or are simply providing a research paper on a particular topic, you likely have direct access to statistics that are more current than any you could find in an already published source. Use the links below to identify relevant data on:
VAGUEpolitix -- Focus On Crime -- On The Web Just the cold, white, gritty stats showing crime down Criminal Justice Statistics Drugs and crime New This Week View pictures of private and public prisons. http://www.vaguepolitix.com/crime/ontheweb/middle.htm
Extractions: Statistics on Crime, U.S. Dept. of Justice Bureau of Justice Bookmark this page! It's like watching true-crime television, the nightly news and news magazines — minus the car chases, frightening perps and "tough on crime" pols spouting about how the system is too kind to criminals. Just the cold, white, gritty stats showing crime down, drug arrests up and more people than ever languishing in prison. [Back To Top] Meatloaf Plain presentation, varied ingredients made mysterious. No descriptions of organizations or sites warn you where your click will take you, but the bipartisan list of foundations, groups, institutions and organizations is a good place to start a tasting tour of the American political webscape. If you don't find the group you're looking for, keep scrolling. Liver, Tab
Prison Activist Resource Center: Prison Crisis Gardens of the Law The Role of prisons in Capitalist the Drug War how criminalization of drugs fuels crime. and their Prison Page Government stats and more http://www.prisonactivist.org/crisis/
Extractions: If you can see this message you have disabled JavaScript. The webpage below may therefore be poorly formatted. We are currently trying to assess if using JavaScript on our pages (in the limited way we use it) is a problem for many of you who visit our site. Please enable JavaScript and email us at parc@prisonactivist.org to let us know if this was an inconvenience. Thanks! Featured Items UPDATE: California's expanding prison-industrial complex Check out Corporate Watch's excellent feature on the Prison Industry. The Oregon AFSCME union has put together a great page on prison privatization (Note: click on the star to view subsequent pages). PARC co-sponsored the Critical Resistance prison activist conference, September 25-27, 1998, in Berkeley, California. The California Prison Moratorium Project is a new group in Northern California seeking a ban on new prison construction. Call (510) 594-4060 or
Part III Legacy Lies: Crime The states, in turn, received federal money to build prisons. Issue 3 of the Sentry showed some crime stats have been declining since the Nixon and Reagan years http://www.sentryoveramerica.com/issue5p2.html
Extractions: Coming SoonAmerica's Road to Communism Issue 5 Page 2 Corrupt Leaders Part III Legacy Lies: Crime Friday, February 23, 2001 700 p.m. Between slinging White House furniture on the U-Haul, arranging kickbacks for pardons, and plotting how to upstage George Bush's inaugural day, King Corrupt found time to have the White house issue a twenty-four point list of "accomplishments" that he wanted to snatch from the rightful ownership of others called "The Clinton Presidency: A Historic Era of Progress and Prosperity." In that official White House parody, it mentions "the lowest crime rate in 26 years." Slick basically says that he alone was responsible for this drop: "Because of President Clinton's comprehensive anti-crime strategy of tough penalties, more police, and smart prevention, as well as common sense gun safety laws, . . . ." I have yet to find one scholar or field professional who attributed the drop to more police officers. The other three items mentioned will also be exorcised from Slick's demoniacal ritual of claiming credit for crime trends.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, TV News Fuels Crime Fears TV newsrooms, frustrated police officials and FBI crime stats arent The media fetish with crime and the publics alone has built 21 new prisons since 1984 http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/332.html
Extractions: http://www.afrikan.net/hype ytoure@mindspring.com 770 322 6653 USA The recent FBI report that crime rates have plunged seven years in a row should be cause for great joy. That formula is ridiculously simple. Just have helicopters and mobile camera crews hover over or roam around city streets looking for police car chases, dead bodies, gang shoot-outs, and drug busts. And most importantly, make sure those city streets are in black and Latino neighborhoods. The formula is bloody, exploitative, and racist. But it is a smash success. This has convinced many white suburbanites that their lives are at grave risk from violence-prone, drugged-out Latinos and African-Americans. It has boosted the number of persons jailed in America to a record high 2 million persons. This is the largest number of any nation on the planet. According to the Sentencing Project, a Washington D.C.-based public advocacy group, California alone has built 21 new prisons since 1984, and taxpayers cough up $4 billion yearly to run them. In the same period the state could manage to scrounge up only enough funds to build one new university campus despite a bulging student population. It has prompted passage of an avalanche of three strikes laws, and other draconian drug laws, which have locked up mostly black and Latino offenders for nonviolent property or drug-related crimes.
New York Law Journal crime stats Made Easy Online. and federal case processing, the Uniform crime Reporting program of the FBI Commission, the Federal Bureau of prisons, the Pretrial http://www6.law.com/ny/tech/101000t5.html
Extractions: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 Say you're a criminal lawyer who needs some statistics. You want to show the jury the relationship between homicide rates and education levels in your state. Or maybe you need to beef up a brief with data on how many robberies were reported in your county over the past decade. The Internet could well be your initial (and final) destination. Sites hosted by federal and state criminal-justice and law-enforcement agencies provide easy access to practice guides, primary law, legal pleadings, government studies, and voluminous statistics. A good place to start is the U.S. Department of Justice, whose Bureau of Justice Statistics, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs , houses an extensive and useful library of data about crime and victims, drugs, criminal offenders, the justice system, law enforcement, prosecution, and other special topics. Of particular use to criminal-justice professionals is Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm
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