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Peggy McGarry

  • Getting It Right: Collaborative Problem Solving for Criminal Justice

    This "guide spells out a practical team-based approach to envisioning the kind of criminal justice system a community wants, assessing the current

  • The Potential of Community Corrections to Improve Safety and Reduce Incarceration

    “As the size and cost of jails and prisons have grown, so too has the awareness that public investment in incarceration has not yielded the expecte

  • Screening for Risk of Sexual Victimization and for Abusiveness: Guidelines for Administering Screening Instruments and Using the Information to Inform Housing Decisions

    These guidelines were developed “to screen for risk of sexual victimization and for abusiveness, including questions to be asked of inmates, reside

  • Incarceration's Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America

    "Local jails, which exist in nearly every town and city in America, are built to hold people deemed too dangerous to release pending trial or at hi