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The Supreme Court decided today that judges do not even have to determine if a child "incorrigible" before imposing a life without parole sentence on that child.Before looking at what

1. Les Miz debuted in 1980, just as mass incarceration took off. It warned us, we didn’t listen. Its lyrics are a syllabus on CJ reform: 2. Importance of family

This is... not exactly right.To start, like w the rape case, Barrett didn't write this. Manion did (like, strangely, in the rape case).Second, it doesn't say this. It's about handcuffs--bc

With the 2019 UCR and the NCVS now out, good time to reiterate an oft-underappreciated point relevant to this “defund” moment:Most crimes yield no arrest, due to lack of reporting

It's hard to care right now for a lot of reasons, but:The 2019 Uniform Crime Reports just posted.The takeaway:• Murder up baaaarely--by 0.3% (51 cases)• Rape (-3%) and robbery (-5%)

I still find myself amazed that decades of cost-benefit analyses of crim justice policy in econ, criminology and other fields never seriously wrestled w opportunity cost.If $1 spent on, say,

As "defunding the police" continues to pick up steam, I think it may be helpful to appreciate the relatively minor role formal enforcement actually plays, and thus why investing in

Thread, on why a general lack of understanding of Bayes Theorem, in a low baserate situstion—which #COVIDー19 is—will get people killed.We are getting tests soon to see if someone has

1. Bc I have to accept that the 1994 Crime Bill is now a permanent fixture of the 2020 campaign, here’s a thread that pulls together the numbers that we