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California’s criminal-justice system began a massive “realignment” Oct. 1, with local authorities now responsible for low-level offenders. Criminologist and law-school senior fellow Barry Krisberg, writing in the Daily Californian, urges the UC community to weigh-in at local planning sessions “where the money will be carved up.”
Tag: crime
Law prof’s book probes ‘whys’ behind Big Apple crime decline
January 2, 2012:
Between 1990 and 2009, New York City saw its crime rate drop by more than 80 percent. In his latest book, The City That Became Safe, Professor Frank Zimring explores how NYC’s experience, focusing on harm-reduction strategies, challenges assumptions driving U.S. policies on crime and drugs.
New report finds dramatic crime reduction in East Palo Alto
December 15, 2010:
The Peninsula city of East Palo Alto shows a dramatic drop in crime over the past two decades, according to an independent analysis by researchers at Berkeley Law’s Center for Criminal Justice. Once known as the U.S. per capita “murder capital,” the city’s crime rate dropped 62 percent, across all major crime types, between 1986 and 2008.
Downsizing the prison-industrial complex
May 4, 2010:
California has created, through its laws and policies, a hugely bloated correctional system, says Barry Krisberg, a well-known advocate of criminal-justice reform. With 170,000 prisoners held in dozens of overcrowded facilities located mostly in rural areas, the system is financially unsustainable — setting the stage, potentially, for smarter policies, he says.
