Browsing by Subject "criminal justice"
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In the year 2020, the United States of America was ravaged by the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, even in a pandemic, crimes are committed, and people are imprisoned. The severely overloaded court system was forced to ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-04-12)Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. So far there has been little empirical evidence to inform policy in this area. In this paper, ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-14)Misdemeanor crimes make up 80 percent of all crimes in the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, communities across the United States are beginning to reconsider the public safety benefits of prosecuting these low-level ...