Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Inimai Chettiar

Image
Accession Number
029758

This report "examines one of the nation’s least understood recent phenomena - the dramatic decline in crime nationwide over the past two decades - and analyzes various theories for why it occurred, by reviewing more than 40 years of data from all 50 states and the 50 largest cities. It concludes

    Image
    Accession Number
    032833

    "Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population - 576,000 people - are behind bars with no compelling public safety reason, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The first-of-its-kind analysis provides a blueprint for how the country can drastically cut