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At age 19, boys whose mothers received nurse home visits as part of a randomized controlled trial of the Nurse-Family Partnership program were no less criminally active than boys in the control group. Since crime is overwhelmingly a male phenomenon, the finding in the same study that NFP greatly reduced criminality among girls (4% [...]
Archive for the ‘Crime Control’ Category
January 2nd, 2010
Category: Crime Control, The War in Iraq
The judge had no choice; the prosecutors screwed up big-time. But there’s still a chance to make a criminal case for false statements and obstruction of justice.
December 7th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
…actually Mark is getting plenty of props in his own country too, but When Brute Force Fails is a Book of the Year in The Economist’s annual list of easy-to-wrap presents for smart friends. The rest of the RBC is happily basking in his reflected glory: you should just click on the first link, and [...]
November 23rd, 2009
Category: Crime Control, Watching Conservatives
How could a “fiscal conservative” approve of spending $200,000 of public money to punish a $500 drug transaction?
November 22nd, 2009
Category: Crime Control
Two men rob a store with pistols. Each shoots someone. One of the victims dies. The robber who actually killed someone gets life; his partner is executed. Yes, it’s a weird outcome. But was the executed man really the victim of a miscarriage of justice? Doesn’t look that way to me.
November 13th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
David Alpert proposes making parking collections more like taxes and less like a negative lottery.
October 31st, 2009
Category: Civil liberty, Crime Control
Sheriff Joe Arpaio likes to use his law enforcement powers to harass his critics. That’s a federal felony.
October 27th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
The Economist has more on retribution and strategies of deterrence.
October 26th, 2009
Category: Crime Control, Drug Policy
New posts on medical marijuana at the American Constitution Society website and on crime control at the Volokh Conspiracy.
October 24th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
‘Lexington” in The Economist has good things to say about HOPE and High Point. But why does he think of them as “soft”?
