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Corrections, Jeffrey Butts, Other Products, Positive Youth Justice, PYJ -- Library

It’s Not About the Art; It’s About the Artist

by JohnJayREC
It’s Not About the Art; It’s About the Artist

We actually need young people who are bold, willing to challenge conventional thinking, and to break rules, but we also need them to respect others, to rely on logic rather than force, and to appreciate the corrosive effects of violence and exploitation. In short, our communities need powerful and creative young people who want to improve us and not simply to fight us. These should seem like obvious concepts to anyone working around the youth justice system, but it is often surprisingly difficult to implement them in practice.

Jeffrey Butts, Other Products, Press Coverage

The Recidivism Trap

by JohnJayREC
The Recidivism Trap

Commentary Counting failure is no way to encourage success Jeffrey A. Butts and Vincent Schiraldi Any discussion of criminal justice policy inevitably includes the word “recidivism.” Usually more than once. Recidivism is the reoccurrence of crime among people known to have committed crimes before. At all levels of justice, from local probation offices to the [...]

KL Blount-Hill, Other Products, Policy & Practice Reforms

Legitimacy in Decision Making: Increasing Voter Approval of Municipal Bonds

by JohnJayREC
Legitimacy in Decision Making: Increasing Voter Approval of Municipal Bonds

Legitimacy plays an important role in building trust in government, and legitimacy and trust have been shown to move individual citizens along a continuum of cooperation where mere compliance turns to satisfaction, support, cooperation, and, ultimately, proactive engagement.

Cure Violence, Jeffrey Butts, Other Products, Presentations, Violence

Evaluating the Cure Violence Model in New York City

by JohnJayREC
Evaluating the Cure Violence Model in New York City

https://youtu.be/IkCFHIlhkiA&rel=0 Discussion at a community roundtable organized by the National Academies of Sciences. Also watch the session following the presentations in which Jeffrey Butts and Daniel Webster respond to audience questions. Read more about the products of the evaluation.

Emily Pelletier, Evidence Generation, Jeffrey Butts, Other Products

Testimony to the New York City Council

by JohnJayREC
Testimony to the New York City Council

Reducing delinquency and youth violence among justice-involved young people is a complicated business. Public safety is best protected when youth justice providers work with young people in their own communities, and when the efforts of courts and children’s services are coordinated with prevention agencies, schools, social services, neighborhood organizations, and faith-based groups.

Jennifer Peirce, Other Products, Press Coverage

Foreign Affairs

by JohnJayREC
Foreign Affairs

Jailhouse Blues Nicaragua's Take on Prison Reform by Jennifer Peirce In 2013, a group of men incarcerated at Nicaragua’s La Modelo prison started a Facebook page. The page, which they maintained via contraband cell phones, began as an effort to publicly document the usually hidden details of their daily lives: bruises from beatings by guards [...]

Crime Data Analysis, Cure Violence, Laila Alsabahi, Other Products, Sheyla Delgado

Murders and Robberies in New York City: January-September 2015

by JohnJayREC
Murders and Robberies in New York City: January-September 2015

Sheyla Delgado and Laila Alsabahi Research & Evaluation Center March 15, 2016 With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the New York City Council, the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College is evaluating the Cure Violence model of violence reduction. The Cure Violence model is inspired by the public health approach to [...]