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...Center on Sentencing and Corrections, Vera Institute of Justice © The Ohio State University The Potential of Community Corrections to Improve Communities and Reduce Incarceration CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS, VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE Introduction In the last 40 years, the number...

...Jonathan Simon Abstract The movement against mass incarceration has made major strides in the past few years with politicians and the media becoming significantly less enthralled with prisons and prison populations themselves are dropping modestly. However further progress, let alone a major effort...

...Nora V. Demleitner EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Human Dignity, Crime Prevention, and Mass Incarceration: A Meaningful, Practical Comparison Across Borders NORA V. DEMLEITNER Dean and Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter I...

...Ronald P. Corbett, Jr. © The Ohio State University Probation and Mass Incarceration: The Ironies of Correctional Practice RONALD P. CORBETT JR.* University of Massachusetts Lowell Robina Institute, University of Minnesota Law School The Wisdom of Sociology is this: things are not what...

...Michelle S. Phelps © The Ohio State University The Paradox of Probation: Community Supervision in the Age of Mass Incarceration (excerpted) Editor s Note: Article excerpted from Law & Policy, volume 35, pages 51 80. References and footnotes were not reprinted due to length. The complete...

...William Pizzi © The Ohio State University The Effects of the Vanishing Trial on Our Incarceration Rate WILLIAM PIZZI* Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado Law School I. Introduction This article focuses on the relationship between two disturbing features of the American criminal...

...The White House © The Ohio State University Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System: Executive Summary (excerpted) Executive Summary Calls for criminal justice reform have been mounting in recent years, in large part due to the extraordinarily high levels...

...Don Stemen © The Ohio State University Reconsidering Incarceration: New Directions for Reducing Crime Executive Summary Current research on the relationship between incarceration and crime provides confusing and even contradictory guidance for policymakers. The most sophisticated analyses...

...Oregon Criminal Justice Commission © The Ohio State University Report to the Legislature: Incarceration, Costs and Crime Over the past 25 years, Oregon and the rest of the nation have increasingly turned to incarceration as a criminal justice policy. This is a review of how Oregon s system has...

...Robert Heiner The Growth of Incarceration in The Netherlands I. Introduction In the 1970s, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries were distinguished for their relatively low incarceration rates. In the last two decades of the twentieth century U.S. incarceration rates have skyrocketed...

...Christian Henrichson; Ruth Delaney © The Ohio State University The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers CHRISTIAN HENRICHSON Vera Institute of Justice RUTH DELANEY Vera Institute of Justice Introduction Decades of increasing incarceration and soaring corrections costs have been...

...Michael O’Hear © The Ohio State University Wisconsin Sentencing in the Walker Era: Mass Incarceration as the New Normal Wisconsin voters rst elected Republican Scott Walker governor in 2010. He proved an exceptionally polarizing leader, largely as a result of his nationally known battles...

...Michael O’Hear © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Mass Incarceration in the Heartland: Midwestern States Struggle to Tame Historically High Prison Populations MICHAEL O HEAR Professor, Marquette Law School Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter As goes the Midwest, so goes the rest...

...Chiraag Bains © The Ohio State University Looking in the Mirror: The Prosecutor s Role in Ending Mass Incarceration I. Introduction Prosecutors carry a noble mission: to present truth and seek justice, to punish and deter criminal wrongdoing, and to ensure the rule of law. But their actions...

...Ingunn Seim © The Ohio State University The Norwegian Drug Court Model An Alternative to Incarceration for Criminal Drug Addicts I. Introduction Several countries have established special penalties for drug addicts as a part of the ght against drug-related crime. Experiences from Ireland1...

...Hon. Lynn Adelman Abstract In my paper, I discuss what I believe is the most effective approach to sentencing drug defendants. I start with the proposition that in many, if not most cases, incarcerating drug offenders does more harm than good. Imprisonment contributes to mass incarceration, does...

...Julian Adler; Caitlin Flood Abstract This article examines the recent increase in the number of federal alternative-to-incarceration programs (ATIs), and how such programs could be aided considerably by the newly constituted United States Sentencing Commission. The authors observe that precisely...

...Ryan Cotter Length of Incarceration and Recidivism RYAN COTTER United States Sentencing Commission Washington, DC INTRODUCTION The United States Sentencing Commission ( the Commission ) began studying recidivism shortly after the enactment of the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA) of 1984.1 Understanding...

...Tina M. Woehr; Allison L. Bruning Abstract The U.S. Sentencing Commission a report entitled “Length of Incarceration and Recidivism,” in 2022 examining a cohort of federally convicted incarcerated individuals released in 2010. It asserts that individuals sentenced to 60–120 months, as well as those...

...Marc Mauer Felon Voting Disenfranchisement: A Growing Collateral Consequence of Mass Incarceration InNovember 2000, justunder 100million Americans will cast theirballots forPresident, representinghalf theeligible voters in thecountry.But despite substantial MARC MAUER Assistant Director...