This study aims to provide recommendations for possible EU measures in the area of corruption prevention and repression and to assess and compare the impacts of the identified policy options.
This report describes the findings from a multi-site evaluation of law enforcement deflection in the United States. The authors describe how each program is implemented and identify key program facilitators and barriers. For two of the six sites, the authors conducted outcome analyses to determine whether the model is effective in reducing drug-related deaths and overdoses, arrests, and treatment admissions.
The authors provide a review of the literature that evaluates programs for youth involved in the juvenile justice system to identify promising and effective practices. Findings from this report will help the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council in Los Angeles County, California, make evidence-informed decisions regarding programs that are selected for funding and assist providers in identifying effective programs for the youth that they serve.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen is a major change to Second Amendment jurisprudence and could lead to large-scale changes in the U.S. firearm regulatory landscape. Nevertheless, key ambiguities and contradictions in the decision and its concurring opinions lead the authors to conclude that sharp departures from current state regulatory regimes are unlikely until the Supreme Court resolves those ambiguities.
To better understand the needs around developing and leveraging data from a national data collection of law enforcement–related deaths, RTI International and the RAND Corporation, on behalf of the National Institute of Justice, convened a panel of experts to discuss the challenges to conducting a national data collection, identify potential solutions to those challenges, and recommend research and other applications for the collected data.
The California County Resentencing Pilot Program was established to support and evaluate a collaborative approach to exercising prosecutorial resentencing discretion. The first of three reports, this evaluation seeks to determine how the pilot program is implemented in each of the nine participating counties and what the characteristics are of a possible candidate for resentencing.
Despite widespread adoption and use of intimate partner abuse solution programs by court systems and communities around the United States, there remains inconsistent and limited information on their effectiveness. The authors convened a panel of experts to better understand the needs of these programs. In a three-session virtual workshop, the group discussed the programs, challenges, and solutions and identified 33 high-priority needs.
This resource is a guide for U.S. state governments as they seek to implement comprehensive targeted violence prevention (TVP) programming and evaluate its implementation, outcomes, and impact.
Using a Bayesian statistical analytic framework, investigates whether the Baltimore Police Department's use of aerial surveillance could help detectives solve serious violent crimes.
Preparing justice-involved individuals for successful reentry into the community and long-term desistance from crime is a critical mission of corrections agencies and their community-based partners. To accomplish this goal, corrections agencies employ a variety of supervision services and programs to address common need areas. In this report, experts identified strategies for employing technology to improve reentry outcomes.
Does mens rea matter to the criminal legal system? Our study addresses this question by performing the first-ever empirical analysis of a culpable mental state's impact on administration of a criminal statute.
Presents the results from a field experiment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that provided a public defender at a defendant's initial bail hearing and explores the potential impacts of legal representation at this stage.
We investigate what portion of the pool of unemployed men in the United States have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated by age 35.
Spotlight 2021–2022 highlights selected RAND Europe projects that address the important issues of our time. It also features research that is poised to make a difference in the coming year.
The authors conducted a process and outcomes evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Corrections' (MNDOC's) Career Navigators (CN) program. The program was created to assist people with college and training opportunities when they return to the community and at the front end of the corrections process. The research included qualitative data-collection involving CN participants and program staff and quantitative analysis of MNDOC data.
The researchers explored the landscape of prison-based programs for incarcerated parents and considered the extent to which programs sought to mitigate the effects of policies and practices that disproportionately affect Black and Latinx families. Administrators of prison facilities in five states completed an online survey about program implementation; program responsiveness to gender, culture, or both; and perceptions of program efficacy.
A RAND research report proposes the novel reset principle to guide more-accurate recidivism risk prediction for criminal background checks. The research also demonstrates the viability of a risk-prediction model that satisfies the reset principle.
This infographic accompanies a tool that supports the implementation of an empowerment-based domestic violence program within a family court setting.
This guide supports the implementation of an empowerment-based domestic violence program within a family court setting. It was developed to share the best practices learned during the evaluation of the Safe Horizon Family Court organization; this evaluation examined the functioning and processes of Safe Horizon's Family Court Program. It may be useful for researchers and practitioners interested in implementing a family court–based intervention.
Criminal background checks screen people for myriad opportunities, including employment. The authors propose the reset principle, which anchors recidivism risk assessments at the time of the background check to account for a person's time in the community since their last interaction with the criminal justice system. This differs from recidivism risk assessments in the criminal justice context, which are anchored at the time of conviction.
In this paper, the authors argue that the recidivism statistics cited most often in debates about the collateral consequences of conviction are not appropriate evidence in those debates. In particular, those statistics often are based on criminal justice cohort samples, which disproportionately contain frequent participants in the criminal justice system and thus have higher recidivism rates compared with the broader population of concern.
The authors examined the extent to which best practices for juvenile justice systems are considered when making funding decisions for services funded by the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) in Los Angeles. The JJCPA, administered by the California Board of State and Community Corrections, provides funding to counties to support programs to curb crime among at-risk youth and youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
This study measures public confidence in police and public support for policing practices. Findings reveal that participants expressed moderate levels of confidence in their local police, although confidence varied across racial groups.
This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage: through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision.
Using data on speeding violations in Virginia, researchers examine whether there are racial disparities in who benefits from the discretion of law enforcement and the courts to discount or downgrade misdemeanor violations.
