Mayor Menino acts now for safer summer Crime prevention, putting youths to work are top priorities By Andrew Ryan | GLOBE STAFF MAY 16, 2012 Mayor Thomas M. Menino is expected to outline a preemptive push to stanch summertime violence Wednesday, seeking to stop crime now with the hope of preventing retaliation in July and … Continue reading
Does race matter in the juvenile justice system? May 4, 2012 by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas When a child is referred to a Connecticut court, the state’s juvenile justice system is largely colorblind. New state data from 2011 show that whether a youth is black, white or Latino, he has about a 50 percent chance of … Continue reading
read the original Transfers to adult court don’t explain drop in youth crime Jeffrey Butts, Guest Columnist April 20, 2012 The state of Florida transfers far more juvenile offenders to the criminal (adult) court system than any other state in the nation. In this sense at least, Florida can rightly claim to be No. 1. Florida’s … Continue reading
EDITORIAL More Justice for Juveniles October 2, 2011 From the very public pinnacles of justice to the more obscure corridors of academia, the way our society prosecutes and metes out punishment for juveniles is under harsh re-examination. That’s all for the good. What’s less clear is the best way to fix a system that isn’t … Continue reading
Less crime also doesn’t pay in Western Virginia’s federal courts By Mike Gangloff Roanoke Times August 28, 2011 … Jeffrey Butts, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said in an email that criminologists credit the expansion of the prison population, improvements in policing, shifts in the job market … Continue reading
