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The Brookings Institution held a discussion to examine ways to make changes to the criminal justice system’s use of fees, finesm and bail. Experts and advocates in this panel focused on the …

Criminology scholars, former justice department officials, and current law officials examined ways to foster greater trust between local law enforcement and the communities they serve and pr…

Panelists talked about the relationships between academia and the open source intelligence community and how they could work together to support the flow of information. They also answered q…

Legal scholars talked about a report on parole and its use nationwide. Among the issues they addressed were parole boards, parole supervision, and the number of people returned to prison aft…

Drug experts discussed the relationship between alcohol, drugs and crime. Mr. Leshner described drug addiction and its treatment. Mr. Travis talked about crimes committed by drug addicts, wh…

Professor Mark Kleiman, Professor of Policy Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, talked about punishment and the threat of punishment and how to deploy them in controlling t…

Researchers from the University of Maryland Criminology and Criminal Justice Department discussed their report on crime prevention measures. They discussed programs that work, and ones that …

Justice Department officials described new initiatives to combat drug use, along with the results of a new study of drug use in the U.S. Two grants will be awarded by the Justice Department …

Jeremy Travis, Director of the National Institute of Justice, talked about the institute’s drug abuse monitoring program, which provides state and local officials with drug related crime inf…

As part of a three-day conference, federal and local law officials and others discussed the national and local partnership in crime control and prevention. They stressed the importance of co…