Search Results for drug data

...Benjamin L. Chanenson Abstract Data are essential for good sentencing policy. It is impossible to act intelligently without knowing what is happening on the ground. This is especially true with drug offenses, which drive a significant portion of prosecutions and sentences every year. Accessible...

... trafficking of serious drugs. Data also suggest that the public finds a range of factors—including the original sentence being extreme by international standards, extreme due to racially biased practices, out of step with current sentencing values/practices, too costly, and continuing to incarcerate someone...

...Jake J. Smith Abstract While sentence lengths for most federal drug trafficking offenses have decreased in recent years, methamphetamine sentences are moving in the opposite direction, lengthening by 12% between FY2015 and FY2019. Using data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission and other sources, I...

... tested on a regular basis. While the field has accepted drug testing as a key component, this paper suggests that the data, while limited, is not as pervasive as the practice itself. This paper will explore the current research on drug testing, how effective it is for people without an identified...

... or education requirements, mandated treatment programming participation, and payment of fees and nes. In addition, many people on probation are required to undergo drug testing as a condition of their probation. This study uses data from the Georgia Department of Community Supervision to assess the utility...

.... Working with The Ohio State University s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, Benjamin L. Chanenson chronicles the drug sentencing data that nineteen commissions currently publish on their websites. Finding both highlights and areas ripe for improvement, he describes one version of ideal drug data...

...John Tilley; Serena Chang; Richard J. Peay Abstract Real-time data is crucial in delivering actionable information, yet sparse in the criminal justice space. Often, practitioners and policy makers (“System Actors”), are forced to rely on information that is missing, incorrect, and/or outdated...

... in incarceration for drug crimes, One cannot intelligently address these issues without examining the data that bear on them. II. Some Background Data on Violence and Drug Markets In the mid-1980s, prisons were lling up with drug offenders. Figure 1 provides a clear indication of this growth,1...

... voluntary or presumptive guidelines in that year.14 I ran three separate regressions, one each for violent, property, and drug crimes; due to problems in the drug data, the results for those crimes are much less reliable than those for the other two.15 The model examining guideline adoption s effect...

... brießy examines a portion of the evidence on the efÞcacy of the war on drugs. While this review is admittedly non-exhaustive, this evidence suggests that escalation of the war on drugs does, in fact, reduce the rates of drug use in America. I. One View of the Data: Statistics on Escalation or De...

... and measurable impact on the decisions made by federal prosecutors from coast to coast6 Attorney General Holder stated that data showed federal prosecutors were more selective in bringing certain drug prosecutions; the most serious drug crimes were attracting the highest scrutiny; and the Department experienced...

..., Issue 13 as presented to Ohio voters back in 2002, and discussing the challenges ahead while proposing forward-thinking solutions. Long-lasting reform in criminal justice policy must be based upon more than limited circumstances, anecdotal experience, and insuf cient data. We will not solve the drug...

... reexamined the guideline covering federal drug traf cking offenses. The Commission conducted hearings on how the guidelines account for the quantity of drugs involved in federal drug traf cking offenses, analyzed sentencing and recidivism data, considered legislative and guideline developments, reviewed tens...

... on Criminal Justice. FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 32, NO. 3 FEBRUARY 2020 Black and white drug arrest rates and drug arrest disparity ratio Sources: BJS Data Analysis Tool and UCR arrest statistics. © 2019 Council on Criminal Justice. DRUG ARRESTS DECREASED FOR BLACKS AND INCREASED FOR WHITES, DRIVING...

... suggested custody terms for drug offenses. This article focuses on just one of those issues, albeit an important one: the likelihood of recidivism by those granted early release. As more data becomes available, we expect others will report on the nancial impact of the decision, in uence on community...

..., and other problems that affect the data at both the input level and the level at which TRAC recorded it. For example, a prosecutor may enter Weapons-Operation Triggerlock as the program category for a case involving drugs and a gun because the office receives funding or extra personnel for that program...

... people per square mile) also ranks among the 15 most densely populated cities (over 100,000 residents) in the country. B. COMMISSION DATA AND ANALYSIS The Commission empirically assessed the extent to which the density of schools and other drug free areas in three of New Jersey s largest urban centers...

.... Drug-related violations are among the top reasons that lead to revocations of probation or parole.33 Consistent with drug arrest data, Black and Native people are more likely than white people to garner a supervision violation for using or possessing drugs, despite similar rates of drug use across all...

... with a significant number of drug offenders, the sheer volume of drug defendants is overwhelming. And the data do show that those who successfully complete drug-court regimens and control their addictions have lower rates of reoffending, which is especially important if the crimes avoided are nondrug crimes...

... 2007 data, of 24,750 total drug trafficking cases, there were 6,175 powder cocaine cases (25% of all drug trafficking cases) and 5,239 crack cocaine cases (21% of all drug trafficking cases). Updated Figure 2-1 Trend in Number of Powder Cocaine and Crack Cocaine Offenders FY1992-Preliminary FY2007...