For decades, scholars have examined the causes and consequences of sentencing disparities in the criminal justice system. Recent research on sentencing has placed greater emphasis on examining the relationship between a defendant’s national origin and citizenship status on punishment outcomes. Criminologist Porche’ Okafor will examine how nationality and citizenship status influence sentencing disparities across macro-social contexts.
Noncitizens and undocumented immigrants interacting with both immigration and criminal justice polices have long faced disproportionate challenges of this dual system—often referred to as “crimmigration.” These individuals face the risk of being identified, incarcerated, detained, and then deported. In recent years, these policies have created long-term impacts on children of immigrant families. While research has focused on the consequences of parental incarceration and deportation for children, we know less about the long-term consequences as these children become young adults.
High-profile cases of police violence have spurred renewed attention to the issue of police use and misuse of force. Sociologist and criminologist David Kirk will will investigate whether police officers exposed to use of force by fellow officers are more likely to use force after their exposure. He will analyze 911 call data, demographic data, work assignment data, records on use of force from the Dallas Police Department, and American Community Survey data for his study.
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Delinquency and Corrections: Part II, Topeka Improvement Survey
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More than sixteen hundred people were arrested in Topeka in 1913. This booklet seeks to investigate how the city’s police department, courts, jails, and probation officers are treating the offenders. It discusses the police department, court penalties, city and county jails, probation and parole for adults, juvenile delinquency, and preventive work and the provides general conclusions.
ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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This booklet contains a report of living conditions in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation and published by the Century Club of Scranton. It covers the following topics: community assets, education, public health and sanitation, civic improvement, betterment agencies, recreation, taxation and public finance, work conditions and relations, and delinquency.
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The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1915 through November 1916 cover topics such as delinquency, law as an aid to social diagnosis, pathological lying, and transportation matters.
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This booklet covers the development in the United States of schools for the training of guards and other prison officers modeled on one in England. Topics include the U.S. Training School at 427 West Street in New York City, the Keepers’ Training School on New York’s Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), and the British Training School in Wakefield, England. The booklet also contains forms relating to candidates for prison service in England and Wales.
HASTINGS H. HART was a consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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This text was presented at the 51st Congress of the American Prison Association in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1921. It addresses the high proportion of African American criminal offenders in the United States, considers how such offenders should be treated, and offers suggestions for decreasing crime in this population.
G. CROFT WILLIAMS was the secretary of the State Board of Public Welfare, Columbia, South Carolina.
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This booklet presents the report of the Committee on Lock-ups, Municipal and County Jails, of the American Prison Association on United States prisoners boarded out by the federal government. It discusses the origins of the boarding-out system, congressional action, three U.S. penitentiaries, federal reformatories, U.S. prisoners boarded out, the difficulties of reforming the county jail system, jail from the prisoner’s point of view, and suggestions for grand jury surveys of conditions under which federal prisoners are kept in county jails.
HASTINGS L. HART was the chairman of the committee of the American Prison Association and consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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This booklet provides a summary of the architectural plans for the jail in Burlington County, New Jersey. It includes discussion of standards for a model jail as well as an analysis of the general evils of county jails and their remedies.
ROBERT MILLS was an architect who designed the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
GEORGE J. GIGER was director of inspections at the Department of Institutions and Agencies for the State of New Jersey.