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... but also a period of opportunities to get people started on the path to employment, abstinence from drugs, good family relations, and crime-free living. © The Ohio State University sentencing reentry release procedures drug treatment programs Family Strength Index The First Month Out: Post...

... with no difference in crime rates, a 22 percent lower index crime rate, or a decrease only in the rate of property crime.18 Therefore, to be guided by the available empirical research, policymakers clearly need to develop a more nuanced understanding of the literature. Table 1. Summary of Studies Estimating...

... power, considers all the circumstances surrounding the crime including the type of offense, the harm to the victim, the defendant s prior record, the strength of the evidence, and the community s interest in prosecution so should she also consider the collateral consequences that would attach...

.... According to the chief justices in states with sentencing commissions, the two principal strengths of sentencing commissions are (1) the availability of reliable and trustworthy sentencing data and information to policy FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 21, NO. 4 APRIL 2009 277 makers and practitioners...

... population grew by more than a million people between 1996 and 2014, the number of New Yorkers incarcerated in prisons and jails declined by 31,120 during that time period. But from 1996 to 2014, the City s crime rate declined more rapidly than index crime declined nationally. Between 1996 and 2014, index...

... such as reducing the size of supervised release, supervision sentence lengths, and conditions; developing more holistic, strengths-based approaches to conditions and violations; and ending the cycle of incarceration and supervision that has trapped too many people and prevented them from living full lives...

...., young age, criminal history), FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 26, NO. 3 FEBRUARY 2014 161 weighting them by predictive strength, and combining them into a numerical score and/or a classi cation (e.g., low/ medium/high risk). Pennsylvania s RST and the Static-99 are examples of this approach. Later...