Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of criminal justice
2014 study in the Journal of Experimental Criminology measuring the effectiveness of community policing in the United States through a quantitative analysis of prior academic studies.
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2015 report from the Federal Trade Commission detailing fraud and abuse complaints across the United States, with state- and metro-area level rates of consumer reporting.
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2014 Congressional Research Service report on U.S. government aid to Israel, including current amounts as well as historical data and trends.
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2015 study from Stetson University published in Journal of Communications that explores violence in movies and video games and rates of societal violence over the same period.
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2015 study from Stanford University and the Harvard Kennedy School comparing the ideological positions of judges across different tiers of the judiciary between judges and lawyers.
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2015 review of FBI statistics and a study in Justice Quarterly showing patterns and trends relating to violence in the United States and the typical characteristics of perpetrators.
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2015 study in The Quarterly Journal of Economics showing how early incarceration hurts high school graduation rates and increases the chances of further contact with the criminal justice system.
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2013 review of scholarly studies that examine possible positive and negative outcomes of violent video game play, including links to aggressive behavior.
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2011 study by Iowa State, Central Michigan University and the RAND Corporation in the Journal of Law and Human Behavior.
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2014 paper in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science that explores current debates and findings relating to the area of human trafficking.
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