Projecting Florida Crime Rates and the Impact of Prison Population Reductions …of various demographic and economic factors, as well as the imprisonment rate, on Florida’s past crime rates. They then used these models to project crime trends into the 2020s, both with and…
Is Bail Reform Causing an Increase in Crime? In Is Bail Reform Causing an Increase in Crime?, criminologists Don Stemen and David Olson examine crime rates in eleven states and cities that adopted bail reforms, finding “no clear…
An Exploration of the Marked Decline of Women’s Involvement in Crime: 1700–1900 …to violent as well as nonviolent (serious) crimes, and to explore its causes and consequences. The proportions of men and women charged with crime, including serious crime, have varied widely…
HFG Symposium on Crime in America …most relevant crime and violence issues in the United States. On Oct. 3-4, 2023, John Jay College will host The 18th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America,…
HFG Helps Launch Working Group on Violent Crime …a working group to study the issue and propose solutions. “Violent crime, particularly homicide, is rising rapidly in cities across the nation,” the Council said in announcing the formation of…
“Evidence Doesn’t Seem to Play a Key Role”: A Conversation with David Weisburd …places. Over time, crime declined by 22 percent in Seattle, but the crime concentration level stayed the same. It was constant. Fifty percent of streets have no crime at all…
Violent Street Groups and Organized Crime in Russia …steps towards affiliation into the structures of organized crime. This is also true for some homeless young men, who form their own street groups. They aspire to join organized crime,…
Crime Gun Theft …crime. In particular, Chicago data suggests that only a tiny proportion of crime guns in that city were ever reported stolen to the Police Department. That and other evidence challenge…
