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  • Sentencing Women Offenders: A Training Curriculum for Judges [Lesson Plans]

    Intervention effectiveness can be improved by understanding how women respond to sanctions.
  • Evidence-Based Practice to Reduce Recidivism: Implications for State Judiciaries

    The reduction of recidivism by state judiciaries utilizing six principles of evidence-based practice (EBP) is explained.
  • State Sentencing and Corrections Legislation

    This database of significant sentencing and corrections legislation recently enacted by states can be searched by state, topic, keyword, year, or p
  • Turning off the Spigot: How Sentencing Safety Valves Can Help States Protect Public Safety and Save Money

    “This report examines several states’ ‘‘safety valve’’ statutes - legislation that allows judges to bypass a mandatory sentence under certain circu
  • Intelligent Justice: Balancing the Effects of Community Sentences and Custody

    “This paper revisits the much argued question about the relative merits of prison and community sentences.
  • A New Approach to Reducing Incarceration While Maintaining Low Rates of Crime

    This paper does a great job in explaining how your criminal justice system can greatly reduce incarceration while ensuring community safety.
  • Recalibrating Justice: A Review of 2013 State Sentencing and Corrections Trends

    "In 2013, 35 states passed at least 85 bills to change some aspect of how their criminal justice systems address sentencing and corrections.
  • Federal Justice Statistics, 2011 - Statistical Tables

    This report provides "annual data on workload, activities, and outcomes associated with federal criminal cases.
  • Federal Justice Statistics, 2012 - Statistical Tables

    This report describes "the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment
  • Federal Justice Statistics, 2011 - 2012

    This report describes "the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment
  • The Sentencing Project Issues: Youth Justice

    News and publications about juvenile justice.