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Are mandatory minimum drug sentences cost-effective?
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The authors of the current study examine mandatory minimum drug sentences from the viewpoint of cost-effectiveness at achieving such national drug control objectives as reducing cocaine consumption and cocaine-related crime.
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In most states, that system makes little or no allowance for the disabilities of such offenders, resulting in dispositions that are inequitably harsh and in all likelihood costlier to the public than need be the case.
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The authors used a randomized field experiment to evaluate the impact of efforts at post-arrest case enhancement by a special repeat offender unit of the Phoenix Police Department.
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Drug court or probation? : an experimental evaluation of Maricopa County's drug court
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Intensive supervision programs (ISP) have proliferated in the past decade. They generally emphasize reduced caseloads, close surveillance, urinalysis, treatment, and employment.
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The Criminal Justice Policies and Outcomes (CJPO) file contains data collected from 1986 through 1988 describing the adjudication of more than 2,000 criminal cases filed in 14 large jurisdictions in the United States.
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Identifies a number of general trends and patterns in local government in California since the passage of Proposition 13 that may have significant implications for the future, and illustrates them with examples from the criminal justice system.
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The criminal identification problem requires a suspect to be positively identified at the time of arrest. This process involves taking fingerprints of a suspect and checking them against local, state, and federal files. The paper examines systems f...
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Describes three long-term objectives that career criminal prosecution units (CCPs) might fulfill: crime reduction through incapacitation and deterrence; symbolic justice; and innovation in general prosecution procedures.
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With the increasing number of people processed annually by the criminal justice system from arrest to parole supervision, classification models have important implications for maximizing the allocation of resources. Moreover, if such models have demo...
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A state-of-the-art survey of programs that target the career criminal for special criminal justice efforts. In particular, it focuses on how to link these programs into an integrated structure. The information was collected through telephone intervi...
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RAND has conducted a number of studies focusing on police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections. A study on citizen crime prevention activities has recently been completed, and the issue of serious habitual offenders is currently being researched.
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Summarizes findings from a project designed to examine the criminal careers of habitual felons. In-depth personal interviews with 49 prison inmates are the primary source of data.
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Presents an analysis of the implementation process for computer models in criminal justice agencies. The study was undertaken as part of a larger review of computerized decision models and their use. The purpose was to assist the Law Enforcement As...
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A set of broad administrative objectives is tentatively suggested for a criminal court. Some of these are aimed at improving the quality of justice, some at reducing the burden imposed by administrative procedures on individuals and agencies, and so...
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The state criminal justice planning agencies required by the Crime Control Act of 1968 must, to achieve their objectives, overcome the usual sources of plan failure--resistance of the agencies involved to outside control; separation of planning from ...
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Ph.D. in health services and policy analysis, University of California, Berkeley
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Ph.D. in public health, University of California, Los Angeles
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