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Presley Center of Crime & Justice Studies

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Article Compendium

The Presley Center's Article Compendium

The article compendium is updated monthly and aggregates research articles and reports authored by a variety of scholars, think tanks, and agencies for easy reference by those interested in emerging criminal justice issues. These resources are not authored or endorsed by Presley’s affiliated researchers or the center and is not intended to cover all criminal justice subject matters.

Corrections Realignment and Data Collection in California

Corrections Realignment and Data Collection in California
By Sonya Tafoya, Ryken Grattet, Mia Bird |

The New Normal? Prosecutorial Charging in California after Public Safety Realignment (2014)

The New Normal? Prosecutorial Charging in California after Public Safety Realignment (2014)
By Ball, David and Weisberg, Robert |

Day Reporting Center (DRC) Evaluation Study (2013)

Day Reporting Center (DRC) Evaluation Study (2013)
By Kern County Probation Department |

Evidence-Based Sentencing and the Scientific Rationalization of Discrimination

Sonja Starr's paper critiques the growing trend of basing criminal sentences on actuarial recidivism risk prediction instruments that include demographic and socioeconomic variables. She argues that this practice violates the Equal Protection Clause and is bad policy: an explicit embrace of otherwise-condemned discrimination, sanitized by scientific language. Evidence-Based Sentencing (EBS) seeks to help judges advance...
By Sonja B. Starr |

Putting Teeth into AB 109: Why California’s Historic Public Safety Realignment Act Should Require Reentry Programming (2013)

Putting Teeth into AB 109: Why California’s Historic Public Safety Realignment Act Should Require Reentry Programming (2013)
By Kathleen N. Flynn |

The Ongoing Correctional Chaos in Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Realignment’s Effects on California Jails (2013)

The Ongoing Correctional Chaos in Criminalizing Mental Illness: The Realignment’s Effects on California Jails (2013)
By Cooper, Anastasia |

Assessing the Impact of Bail on California’s Jail Population

In 2013 PPIC released a report about bail levels and wide variation across countries discriminate against indigent and poor defendants and lead to overcrowded jails. The report examines Bail changes since 2002. From 2002 to 2012, county bail levels for some of the most frequently committed felony offenses increased by an inflation-adjusted 22 percent. A...
By Sonya M. Tafoya |

CPAP Assessment of CDCR Recidivism-Reduction Programs (2014)

CPAP Assessment of CDCR Recidivism-Reduction Programs (2014)
By Jesse Jannetta |

Looking Past The Hype: 10 Questions Everyone Should Ask About California’s Prison Realignment (2013)

Looking Past The Hype: 10 Questions Everyone Should Ask About California’s Prison Realignment (2013)
By Petersilia, Joan and Snyder, Jessica Greenlick |

Can AB 109 Work in Los Angeles County? (2013)

Can AB 109 Work in Los Angeles County? (2013)
By Leroy D. Baca and Gerald K. Cooper |

Voices from the Field: California Victims’ Rights in a Post-Realignment World

Voices from the Field: California Victims’ Rights in a Post-Realignment World
By Jessica Spencer and Joan Petersilia |

Criminal Justice Realignment: A Prosecutor’s Perspective (2013)

Criminal Justice Realignment: A Prosecutor’s Perspective (2013)
By Lisa Rodriguez |

An Assessment of the Implementation of AB 109 and Prison Realignment in California (2013)

An Assessment of the Implementation of AB 109 and Prison Realignment in California (2013)
By Alexander Becker, Nathan Damoradan, Kelley Groves, Xiangyi Jing Kele Song |

Predictive Policing The Role of Crime Forecasting in Law Enforcement Operations (2013)

Predictive Policing The Role of Crime Forecasting in Law Enforcement Operations (2013)
By Walter L. Perry, Brian McInnis, Carter C. Price, Susan C. Smith, John S. Hollywood |

Evaluating the Effects of California’s Corrections Realignment on Public Safety (2012)

Evaluating the Effects of California’s Corrections Realignment on Public Safety (2012)
By Magnus Lofstrom, Joan Petersilia, and Steven Raphael |

Risk / Needs Assessment 101: Science Reveals New Tools to Manage Offenders (2011)

Risk / Needs Assessment 101: Science Reveals New Tools to Manage Offenders (2011)
By Public Safety Performance Project |

Evidence Based Practices: Reducing Recidivism to Increase Public Safety: A Cooperative Effort by Courts and Probation (2011)

Evidence Based Practices: Reducing Recidivism to Increase Public Safety: A Cooperative Effort by Courts and Probation (2011)
By J. Richard Couzens |

Effect of Suspect Race on Officers’ Arrest Decisions

A thorough research, showcasing the effects of the suspect's race on the possibility of an arrest. Race does indeed matter and on average, the chances of a minority suspect being arrested were found to be 30 percent greater than a white suspect. There are four different powerful contexts that are taken into account. First is...
By Tammy Rinehart Kochel, David B. Wilson, Stephen D. Mastrofski |

Brown v. Plata (2011)

A Class Action Lawsuit that focused on the basis of court orders requiring California to reduce its prison population to remedy unconstitutional conditions in its correctional facilities as they pertain to the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Marciano Plata and various prisoners alleged that California prisons were in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution...
By United States Supreme Court |

The Mark of a Criminal Record

A criminal record presents a major barrier to employment, with important implications for racial disparities. With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners released each year, it is important to understand the employment outcomes of African Americans and white men. A criminal record reduces the likelihood of a callback by...
By Devah Pager |