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You really ought to read David Kennedy’s books on crime and poverty, but if you are pressed for time, the next best thing would be to listen to this recent Fresh Air broadcast on his work and career. The interview gives an excellent sense both of his basic approach to reducing violent crime as well [...]
Archive for the ‘Crime Control’ Category
October 28th, 2011
Category: Crime Control
California’s game-changing prison reform is now underway. Tens of thousands of lower-level offenders are being transferred from state prisons to county jails and probation, relieving prison overcrowding and freeing resources for rehabilitation. State Attorney General Kamala Harris, who spoke at Stanford Law School yesterday, made the sage point that somewhere in the state at some [...]
October 22nd, 2011
Category: Crime Control
Convicting the innocent, and preventing their exoneration by opposing post-conviction forensic testing, leaves the guilty at liberty to strike again.
October 15th, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Drug Policy
Alejandro Hope, a frequent and well-informed commenter at RBC, has started his own Spanish-language blog on drugs and crime. Plata o Plomo has already carried intriguing articles on the origins of the recent violence in Mexico and the challenges of trying to fight money laundering. A strong start with I expect many more good things [...]
October 6th, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Drug Policy
Last night criminologist David Kennedy came to Stanford Law School accompanied by East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis to discuss innovative strategies for reducing shootings and homicides in low income neighborhoods. David said he constantly faces scepticism that violence can be diminished in the inner city unless drug use and dealing are first eliminated. [...]
October 4th, 2011
After an extraordinarily stimulating and educative two day conference on Mexico, crime, drugs and governance, I can post only briefly despite some requests to document the conference at length because we were under the Chatham House rule. I will quote, Harper’s Index style, some surprising numbers that I learned and my reaction to them. Number [...]
October 2nd, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Drug Policy
Starting tomorrow, Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation will host a two-day conference on violence, drugs and governance in Mexico. In preparing for the event (at which Mark Kleiman will also be in attendance), I decided to try to estimate the current revenue streams of the Mexican organized crime organizations (MOCOs). I leaned heavily [...]
September 22nd, 2011
Category: Prisons and penal policy
The scariest thing about cases such as Troy Davis’s: I bet this misdeed was done by people who believed he is guilty.
September 22nd, 2011
A cruel epigram on the execution of Troy Davis.
