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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 2000), Riley N/A, N/A Uaa Justice Center Jan 2000

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 2000), Riley N/A, N/A Uaa Justice Center

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

Alaska Natives constitute approximately 17 per cent of the Alaska’s population, but are under-represented in justice system employment and over-represented among those who are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated and among those victimized by violent crime. The Winter 2000 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents preliminary results of a study of perceptions of correctional work among Alaska Natives which may influence the recruitment of Alaska Natives to careers in corrections. Statistics on Alaska Native and American Indian employment in the Alaska justice system are also provided. National data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on criminal victimization of Alaska Natives …

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Public Opinion About Punishment And Corrections, Francis T. Cullen, Bonnie S. Fisher, Brandon K. Applegate Jan 2000

Public Opinion About Punishment And Corrections, Francis T. Cullen, Bonnie S. Fisher, Brandon K. Applegate

Faculty Publications

"Get tough" control policies in the United States are often portrayed as the reflection of the public's will: Americans are punitive and want offenders locked up. Research from the past decade both reinforces and challenges this assessment. The public clearly accepts, if not prefers, a range of punitive policies (e.g., capital punishment, three-strikes-and-you're-out laws, imprisonment). But support for get-tough policies is "mushy." Thus citizens may be willing to substitute a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for the death penalty. Especially when nonviolent offenders are involved, there is substantial support for intermediate sanctions and for restorative justice. Despite three decades …

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0457 Study Of The Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness In The Criminal Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council Nov 1999

0457 Study Of The Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness In The Criminal Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 1999), Riley N/A, N/A Uaa Justice Center Jun 1999

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 1999), Riley N/A, N/A Uaa Justice Center

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Summer 1999 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum opens with an article presenting figures on the use of firearms in the commission of violent crimes in Alaska and in the U.S. as a whole from 1980 to 1997. A recent book on the growth of mass incarceration is reviewed. Major findings from an Alaska Judicial Council report on a 15-month pilot probation program for misdemeanor domestic violence offenders in Palmer are summarized.

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 1999), Bureau Of Justice Statistics Jan 1999

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 1999), Bureau Of Justice Statistics

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Winter 1999 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents Alaska and U.S. figures on correctional populations over an eleven-year period from 1988 to 1998, during which time Alaska's prison population grew by 57 percent and its rate of incarceration grew by 18 percent, while the overall state population grew by only 16 percent. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that over 570,000 of the nation's prisoners (51%) reported the use of alcohol or drugs while committing their offense. Uniform Crime Reports statistics show that the overall rate of reported crime in Alaska grew by 7 percent from 1988 through …

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Managed Health Care In Prisons As Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Ira Robbins Jan 1999

Managed Health Care In Prisons As Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Ira Robbins

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

INTRODUCTION: Billy Roberts, a prisoner in an Alabama state prison, had a history of severe psychiatric disorders. He was often put on suicide watch, and received large doses of psychotropic drugs. A managed health care company, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), was responsible for the health care at the prison. After Roberts had a suicidal episode, CMS's statewide mental health care director reportedly put Roberts in an isolation cell rather than a psychiatric care unit. The mental health care director also ordered that Roberts' medication be discontinued pursuant to an alleged policy of CMS to get as many prisoners off psycho- …

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Community-Based Corrections: Offender Characteristics And Success In A Halfway House, Ana Maria Del Carmen Gutierrez Jan 1999

Community-Based Corrections: Offender Characteristics And Success In A Halfway House, Ana Maria Del Carmen Gutierrez

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Prison crowding and tight correctional budgets over the past decade have sparked renewed interest in alternative or community-based sentencing options. These non-incarcerative sentences hold the potential for both reining in skyrocketing costs and also providing a more effective setting for rehabilitative interventions. One type of community-based program is the halfway house. Halfway houses are most often used to ease the transition of offenders from the prison to the community by providing temporary housing, job placement assistance, and other services. In addition, in many jurisdictions courts are sentencing offenders directly to halfway houses as a part of the conditions of probation. …

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0452 Overview Of The Criminal Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council Dec 1998

0452 Overview Of The Criminal Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council

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The Express: October 7, 1998, Taylor University Fort Wayne Oct 1998

The Express: October 7, 1998, Taylor University Fort Wayne

1998-1999 (Volume 3)

Yost takes TUFW by the hand — New policy puts teeth in the mouth of Covenant — Resignation of Moore not connected to accusations of Frost — Ciara’s Slingshot— Express Index — Where have all the tomboys gone? — Commitment to Covenant important to Taylor community life — Take control of your education: It’s costly! — Corrections — On the road… — in & out — Quayle visiting Fort Wayne — Burkett gives financial advice to TUFW students — True Reviews — Students go clubbing — Mr. Player winds Mr. TUFW title — Volleyball team surprises Haddix — Falcons get …

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0439 Staff Study On The State Parole System, Colorado Legislative Council Sep 1998

0439 Staff Study On The State Parole System, Colorado Legislative Council

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1998), Moras N/A, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics Jun 1998

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 1998), Moras N/A, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

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Performance-Based Standards For Juvenile Corrections, Doris Layton Mackenzie, Gaylene Armstrong, Angela R. Grover Apr 1998

Performance-Based Standards For Juvenile Corrections, Doris Layton Mackenzie, Gaylene Armstrong, Angela R. Grover

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Total quality management (TQM) has revolutionized business, and some of its components can be applied to corrections. The importance of information for developing performance-based standards is obvious. Much more difficult is the process of deciding what information to obtain and how to use it. In the area of juvenile corrections, information about the conditions or environments of juvenile facilities and how these conditions are associated with intermediate and longterm outcomes will be invaluable in developing performance-based standards.

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 1998), King N/A, N. E. Schafer Mar 1998

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 1998), King N/A, N. E. Schafer

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

In the Spring 1998 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum, an assistant public defender who served from 1991 to 1994 in three jurisdictions in rural Alaska — Ketchikan, Kodiak, and Kotzebue — focuses on the situation of rural Alaska Natives to describe how several structural aspects of the criminal justice may contribute to the overrepresentation of Alaska Natives in the Alaska prison system. The second phase of a Justice Center study of racial disproportionality in juvenile referrals in Alaska looks at 33 youth who had five or more referrals, examining individual criminal histories and family backgrounds as revealed in the …

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 1998), Riley N/A, N/A Uaa Justice Center Jan 1998

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 1998), Riley N/A, N/A Uaa Justice Center

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Winter 1998 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum features several articles on juvenile justice, including figures on juvenile arrests in Alaska over from 1987 to 1996, during which the Alaska juvenile arrest rate actually declined; the provisions under Alaska Statutes for juveniles to be waivered into the adult justice system; and procedures and laws regarding the disclosure of records of juvenile offenders in Alaska and nationally. Research on the informal conversational patterns of correctional officers at Spring Creek Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Seward, Alaska, shows how practices of cultural interpretation common to all work groups may …

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1997), Bureau Of Justice Statistics Mar 1997

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1997), Bureau Of Justice Statistics

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Spring 1997 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents from 1975 to 1995 on murder and nonnegligent manslaughter in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, and Alaska overall; compares Alaska rates with homicide rates nationwide; discusses weapons used and the relationship between victim and offender in Alaska homicides; and compares the murder rate with the rate of other causes of death in Alaska. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that sixteen states executed 56 prisoners during 1995, the largest number of prisoners executed in a year in the U.S. since 1960; and the use of capital punishment by nations worldwide is examined.

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Concerning Facilities For Housing Of Offenders Within The Criminal Justice System, And, In Connection Therewith, Providing Additional Beds And Related Supporting Facilities Over The Next Five Years And Making Appropriations., Colorado General Assembly Jan 1997

Concerning Facilities For Housing Of Offenders Within The Criminal Justice System, And, In Connection Therewith, Providing Additional Beds And Related Supporting Facilities Over The Next Five Years And Making Appropriations., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 1951-2000

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 1996), Bureau Of Justice Statistics, Lisa Rieger Jun 1996

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 1996), Bureau Of Justice Statistics, Lisa Rieger

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Summer 1996 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents several articles on legal resources, both criminal and civil, available to Alaskans with low incomes, describing services provided by the Alaska Public Defender's office and Alaska Legal Services Corporation; criteria for determining indigency when assigning public counsel in Alaska; a 1996 amendment to Alaska's Public Defender Act; criminal defense services for low income people throughout the United States; and tort reform efforts in Alaska and nationwide which may result in decreased access to the courts for individuals with low incomes. An additional article describes results of a recidivism study of …

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 1996), Lerman N/A, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics, N/A National Institute Of Justice, N/A Uaa Justice Center Mar 1996

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 1996), Lerman N/A, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics, N/A National Institute Of Justice, N/A Uaa Justice Center

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Spring 1996 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents an account based on historical research of the trial and execution for murder of a Native fisherman, Nelson Charles, in Juneau in 1939 — one of the last executions in Alaska, which abolished the death penalty in 1957. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports on capital punishment in the U.S. in 1994, during which 13 states executed 31 prisoners. The second of two articles on the village component of a statewide public safety project conducted in 1994 by the Justice Center for the Alaska Department of Public Safety focuses on …

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0414 Overview Of The Colorado Adult Criminal Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council Feb 1996

0414 Overview Of The Colorado Adult Criminal Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1996), Bureau Of Justice Statistics, N. E. Schafer, Melissa S. Green Jan 1996

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1996), Bureau Of Justice Statistics, N. E. Schafer, Melissa S. Green

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Winter 1996 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum presents the first of two articles examining results of the village component of a statewide public safety project conducted by the Justice Center for the Alaska Department of Public Safety, in which researchers interviewed residents and officials of 28 Alaska villages on characteristics, government, and social control in predominately Alaska Native villages. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports on the growing U.S. prison population, which increased 8.8 percent between mid-1994 and mid-1995; a sidebar story compares Alaska with states of similar population in an effort to understand the disparity in its …

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Centralization To Consolidation: Some Historical Antecedents Of Unified Correctional Systems, N. E. Schafer Oct 1995

Centralization To Consolidation: Some Historical Antecedents Of Unified Correctional Systems, N. E. Schafer

Conference papers

Autonomous prisons in the nineteenth century were often inefficient and highly political. Many state legislatures and governors attempted to move toward centralized control of their state facilities. In the twentieth century the Federal Bureau of Prisons was seen by the Wickersham Commission as a model for institutional centralization. Consolidation of all correctional services was recommended by the National Advisory Commission in 1973. Today only a few states – Alaska, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont – have fully unified adult correctional systems; each is described.

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Sex Offender Treatment Program: Preliminary Description, Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Unit May 1995

Sex Offender Treatment Program: Preliminary Description, Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Unit

AJSAC reports

This report provides a summary of the history of sex offender treatment in Alaska, including the current status of treatment programs offered by the Alaska Department of Corrections, a review of literature on sex offender treatment and recidivism issues, and a summary of the descriptive characteristics of individuals who came in contact with the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center from January 1987 to March 1993.

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0399 An Overview Of Colorado Adult Correctional And Juvenile Justice Systems And Population Projections, Colorado Legislative Council Jan 1995

0399 An Overview Of Colorado Adult Correctional And Juvenile Justice Systems And Population Projections, Colorado Legislative Council

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter 1995), Carrie D. Longoria, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics, Andrea M. Fenaughty, Holly A. Massey, Dennis G. Fisher Jan 1995

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter 1995), Carrie D. Longoria, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics, Andrea M. Fenaughty, Holly A. Massey, Dennis G. Fisher

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Winter 1995 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum examines the implementation of Anchorage Police Department’s domestic violence policy, which treats domestic violence cases as criminal offenses and reflects consistent concern for victim safety. During 1993, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 38 men were executed in the U.S.; at year’s end, 34 states and the federal prison system held 2,716 prisoners under sentence of death, 5.3 percent more than at yearend 1992. As part of an national five-year study of drug users, AIDS, and HIV, researchers at the University of Alaska Anchorage have assembled data measuring the risk …

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Concerning Community Corrections Programs., Colorado General Assembly Jan 1995

Concerning Community Corrections Programs., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 1951-2000

No abstract provided.

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Sex Offender Treatment Project: Literature Review, Allan R. Barnes, Melanie Baca, Melody Dix, Shelly Flahr, Cathy Gaal, Max Whitaker, Samantha Moeglein, Nicol Morgheim Jul 1994

Sex Offender Treatment Project: Literature Review, Allan R. Barnes, Melanie Baca, Melody Dix, Shelly Flahr, Cathy Gaal, Max Whitaker, Samantha Moeglein, Nicol Morgheim

Reports

A comprehensive literature review on recidivism by and the treatment of sex offenders.

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 1994), Lawrence C. Trostle, Patrick Cunningham, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics Jun 1994

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 1994), Lawrence C. Trostle, Patrick Cunningham, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Summer 1994 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum describes a pilot victim-offender mediation program in Anchorage which involves juveniles accused of certain offenses and the victims of those crimes. The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities at the end of 1993 reached a record high of 948,881, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), with Alaska’s system increased by 7.1 per cent in 1993, less than the percentage increase for the nation as a whole. A second BJS report finds that nearly one million individuals each year become victims of violent crime …

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Enforcing Corrections-Related Court Orders In The District Of Columbia, Jonathan M. Smith Mar 1994

Enforcing Corrections-Related Court Orders In The District Of Columbia, Jonathan M. Smith

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

In 1909, a presidential commission made the following comment about the conditions that prevailed in the District of Columbia's jail: That men and women should be sent to these narrow and confined cells, the lazy to be fostered in laziness, the industrious to be deprived of every form of employment, in one promiscuous assembly, to corrupt and be corrupted by each other, to be fed like beasts and maintained at the public charge, with no prospect for improvement in condition, with the moral certainty that they will come out far worse than they went in, is a fact that has …

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State Operated Jails: How And Why, Schafer E. N/A Mar 1994

State Operated Jails: How And Why, Schafer E. N/A

Conference papers

From the 1931 Wickersham Commission through the 1967 President's Commission and the 1973 National Advisory Commission, criminal justice experts and observers have recommended that state governments assume responsibility for jail operations. Currently six states operate jails: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island and Vermont. An examination of jail operations in these states shows that history and tradition as well as geography and politics form the impetus for state assumption of jail operations.

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Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1994), Teresa W. Carns, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics, N/A Uaa Justice Center Mar 1994

Alaska Justice Forum ; Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1994), Teresa W. Carns, N/A Bureau Of Justice Statistics, N/A Uaa Justice Center

Vols 11-20 (1994-2004)

The Spring 1994 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum summarizes a report prepared for the Alaska Judicial Council which describes existing state criminal justice computer information systems in Alaska and makes recommendations for improved connectivity and coordination between them. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of women in state prisons grew 75 percent from 1986 to 1991, with women comprising 5.2 percent of all prisoners (up from 4.7 percent in 1986). Figures on guns and crime nationally and in Alaska are presented based on data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting …

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