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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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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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Economic Issues In Crime Policy: Dissertation Summary, Anne Morrison Piehl Jan 1995

Economic Issues In Crime Policy: Dissertation Summary, Anne Morrison Piehl

Dissertation Awards

From 1980 to 1993, the number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 200%. Throughout this expansion, the poorly-educated continued to be overrepresented among the nation's prisoners. At the same time, public concern about crime has also increased. Perhaps because immigrants share many demographic characteristics with criminals, public concern about immigration is often coupled with concern about crime. This dissertation empirically examines these issues central to sensible policy debate.

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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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Pretrial Intervention And Chronic Offenders, Schafer E. N/A Oct 1988

Pretrial Intervention And Chronic Offenders, Schafer E. N/A

Conference papers

The Alaska Pretrial Intervention (PTI) program of the Alaska Department of Law operated in 13 locations throughout the state from 1983 to 1986, when economic pressures resulted in the program's termination. The program was intended to provide an alternative to full prosecution in cases where the offense behavior did not appear to warrant it. This paper analyzes recidivism in the PTI program through examination of chronic offenders, defined as PTI clients who were rearrested for the same charge as that for which they had initially been referred to the program.

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Islamic Law And The Crime Of Theft: An Introduction, David F. Forte Jan 1985

Islamic Law And The Crime Of Theft: An Introduction, David F. Forte

Cleveland State Law Review

This Article introduces the concept of theft in Islamic law. As such, it does not pretend to be comprehensive either in the data it puts forth or in its analysis. Rather, the Article raises a number of issues for discussion, and offers, most tentatively, suggested answers to the following points: 1) whether theft in Islamic law properly belongs to the species of manifest criminality; 2) what possible justifications exist for such an extreme penalty; 3) what were the requirements for conviction; and 4) some concluding observations as to why the classical jurists encumbered a prosecution for theft with so many …

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Evaluation Of Pre-Trial Diversion Project, State Of Alaska, Department Of Law, Peter Smith Ring, Kevin Bruce Jan 1980

Evaluation Of Pre-Trial Diversion Project, State Of Alaska, Department Of Law, Peter Smith Ring, Kevin Bruce

Reports

In February 1978 the Alaska Department of Law initiated a pilot pretrial intervention (PTI) project in Anchorage directed at first-time property offenders with no history of violence and no current drug or alcohol dependency. The project was aimed at reducing recidivism and costs to the criminal justice system, and included a built-in evaluation component. This report explores the PTI project's impact by (1) comparing PTI clients with other defendants; (2) investigating compliance of PTI clients with contracts to which they agree at time of program entry; (3) comparing costs of PTI compared with those generated in ordinary criminal cases; (4) …

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Correctional System Needs, Susan S. Cole Oct 1973

Correctional System Needs, Susan S. Cole

IUSTITIA

One of the most difficult and pressing problems now facing local, state and national leaders is the failure of the criminal justice system. There is ample evidence of the system's failure: during the years 1960 to 1969, when the population increased by 13%, crime increased 1487,' and it is still increasing. Yet, correctional institutions do not appear to be places where criminal behavior is changed or where offenders are rehabilitated. They appear to be, instead, places where offenders are exposed to the most advanced criminal techniques and the most extreme anti-social behavior. Recidivism rates are estimated as high as 8070.

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The University Of South Carolina Law School Corrections Clinic, Cody W. Smith Jr. Jan 1971

The University Of South Carolina Law School Corrections Clinic, Cody W. Smith Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Short-Term Rehabilitation And Crim Prevention, Jon C. Mackay Apr 1969

Short-Term Rehabilitation And Crim Prevention, Jon C. Mackay

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Any program designed to reduce the rate of recidivism in the United States must be viewed as a valuable tool of crime prevention. It can be safely said that at least two-thirds of the crimes committed every year are committed by recidivists, for over the past decade approximately fifty to sixty per cent of all offenders have become repeaters. Thus the elimination of the recidivist in our society would result in a minimum reduction of thirty-three per cent in the number of crimes committed over a given period of time. The task of eliminating recidivism has been left to the …

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West Virginia Habitual Criminal Law, Londo H. Brown Dec 1956

West Virginia Habitual Criminal Law, Londo H. Brown

West Virginia Law Review

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