Tag archive for ‘low-risk offenders’
Cutting Recidivism: What Works, What Doesn’t
By
Edward J. Latessa, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
School of Criminal Justice
University of Cincinnati
There’s a right way and many wrong ways to solve most problems, including the problem of how to reduce high offender recidivism rates. Scholarly researchers have identified the approaches that do work, and revealed those that don’t.-ED
“What works” is not a program or [...]
California Not Soon Likely to Free 40,000; Maybe 27,000
Despite all the hype over a federal judicial panel ruling ordering the State of California to come up with a plan to release over 40,000 inmates to slash prisons overcrowding, it’s unlikely to happen very fast, if at all. First of all, the state’s lawyers are mulling whether or not the court’s ruling to [...]
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