California Prosecutors Must Do More to Protect Their Communities From Coronavirus
Data for Progress featured a memo co-written by Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on how California prosecutors must do more to protect their communities from the coronavirus.
Her baby was stillborn because of meth, police say. Now she’s charged with murder
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on a trial where the drug-addicted mother of a stillborn has been charged with murder.
The push for progressive district attorneys across the US
KCRW-FM’s “Press Play” interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the push for progressive district attorneys across the United States.
LAPD officer killed a man in a Costco store
MSN, Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the recent shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Costco store in Corona.
On 4/20, Experts and Politicians Address Racist Marijuana Policing
Inverse quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School about racist enforcement of marijuana-related crimes.
Prop. 47 Spotlights a Bipartisan Trend in Criminal Justice Reform
by Jeremy Loudenback What do Newt Gingrich and the American Civil Liberties Union of California have in common? If you guessed shared support for a measure that would reduce some felony drug and theft convictions to misdemeanors, you would be right. Gingrich and the A.C.L.U. have both backed California’s Proposition 47, which Read more…
Enforcing Order
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing by Didier Fassin – a study of an anti-crime squad in the outskirts of Paris.
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David Sloane: New article in Journal of Crime and Justice
Karen M. Hennigan, Cheryl L. Maxson, David C. Sloane, Kathy A. Kolnick & Flor Vindel. Identifying high-risk youth for secondary gang prevention. Journal of Crime and Justice: Vol. 37, Issue 1, 2014, pp. 104-128. Abstract Efforts to reduce gang violence by deterring youth from joining street gangs are of major interest in cities Read more…
Community Supervision and New Public Safety Strategies for California
Students Talk Back: A Weekly Politics and Public Policy Forum April 17, 2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm Panelists: Lenore Anderson, Director, Californians for Safety and Justice Jerry Powers, Chief Probation Officer of Los Angeles County Katelyn Leenhouts, Master of Public Policy student, Sol Price School of Public Policy Moderator: Roberto Suro, Read more…
California’s Corrections Systems and the Lives They Impact
Students Talk Back: A Weekly Politics and Public Policy Forum March 27, 2013 12:00pm to 1:00pm Wednesday, March 27, marks the first discussion in a special 3-part “Students Talk Back” panel series focusing on criminal justice issues at both the state and local levels. Featuring: James Austin, Ph.D., President, JFA Read more…