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Newsday — Suffolk Police Stopped, Searched Minority Drivers at Higher Rates

October 20, 2020October 28, 2020by JohnJayREC

"It’s where the story begins and where our attitudes begin in terms of how we perceive law enforcement," said Jeffrey Butts, a research professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "If you’re pulled over all the time, and you think other people are behaving the same way you are, but they’re pulling you over, you immediately start thinking that police are biased, which means government is biased, which causes you to doubt the whole enterprise of democracy and government. So, it’s really serious."

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What Can Safety Without Police Look Like?

July 24, 2020September 15, 2020by JohnJayREC

Sheyla Delgado, deputy director for analytics at John Jay College and a researcher for the Cure Violence evaluation, says the comparisons offer promising evidence in favor of the program’s public health approach to violence reduction. She says what seems to make Cure Violence different from comparable programs that work to reduce violence is that it humanizes all of its participants.

Community Interventions, Crime Data Analysis, Cure Violence, Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Policy & Practice Reforms, Sheyla Delgado, Violence

Reducing Gun Violence in New York City

July 17, 2020January 28, 2021by JohnJayREC

Causal relationships are difficult to identify in complex and multi-part initiatives, but New York City’s falling rate of gun violence suggests that recent community initiatives may have helped to sustain previous gains.

1, Crime Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products

Mixed News About Youth Violence in Recent FBI Crime Data

September 26, 2018July 10, 2020by JohnJayREC

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting series tracks violent crime trends using the four offenses of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. According to the FBI, youth arrests for these offenses grew one percent between 2016 and 2017.

1, Community Interventions, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, Monographs, PYJ -- Library

Recidivism Reconsidered

March 15, 2018July 10, 2020by JohnJayREC

Jeffrey A. Butts and Vincent Schiraldi Recidivism is not a robust measure of effectiveness for community corrections agencies. When used as the sole measure of effectiveness, recidivism misleads policymakers and the public, encourages inappropriate comparisons of dissimilar populations, and focuses policy on negative rather than positive outcomes. Policymakers who focus on recidivism as evidence of [...]

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Analyst: Violent crime rate will go up

February 25, 2018March 17, 2018by JohnJayREC

by Jasmine Stole / jstole@guampdn.com Guam Police Department’s chief of police said violent crime declined from 2015 to 2016. Experts with a New York-based criminal justice university say that's right — but they also predict more violent crime for 2017. “For violent crimes, there seems to be an upward trend across time and a downward [...]

Articles, Douglas Evans, Michelle Cubellis

Sex Offender Stigma: An Exploration of Vigilantism against Sex Offenders

February 20, 2018September 4, 2019by JohnJayREC

The current study compiles open-source news reports involving vigilantes who targeted individuals because of their status as a sex offender (SO) or their suspected involvement in a sex offense. The Sex Offender-Vigilante database includes 279 separate incidents of vigilantism against SOs, ranging from the dissemination of unsanctioned fliers to murder. Results indicate that the stigmatization that convicted SOs experience is so pervasive that it extends even to individuals suspected of having committed a sexual offense.

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Violent Crime Data from the FBI

September 27, 2017September 28, 2017by JohnJayREC

Crime Upticks September 27, 2017 JohnJayREC director, Jeffrey Butts, interviewed on WRVA NewsRadio by host Jeff Katz, discussing new crime numbers released this week by the FBI and what they say about the increases in violent crime in a number of U.S. cities. .