The city of Irvine has experienced significant change over its 50-year history, and yet one constant is that crime has remained at a low level, and, if anything, has been declining in the most recent decade. Why is that? In this report, we explore some of the possible factors that may help account for this…Continue Reading Irvine at 50: A Tale of Continuity and Change
Read findings from Rylan’s Simpson experiment, titled the Police Officer Perception Project (POPP) here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-017-9292-4…Continue Reading Police Officer Perception Project (POPP)
Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the Southern California Landscape Abstract: This project involves collecting and combining data from a large number of sources (e.g. crime data, land use data, parolee data, business and employment data, etc.) to study crime and crime trends across three metropolitan areas (six counties) in Southern California. This…Continue Reading Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the Southern California Landscape
Realigning California Corrections: Legacies of the Past, the Great Experiment, and Trajectories for the Future Overview—California’s corrections system, one of the largest state-level systems in the world, is in crisis. Prison overcrowding led to U.S. Supreme Court intervention (Brown v. Plata 2011). The Plata order required the state to reduce its prison population to 137.5…Continue Reading Realigning California Corrections: Legacies of the Past, the Great Experiment, and Trajectories for the Future
Realignment in California and the Consequences for Neighborhood Crime Rates Abstract: Severe overcrowding in California state prisons has led the Supreme Court to rule that California must reduce its state prison population drastically within the next several years. The State’s response, AB 109 (referred to as Realignment), which went into effect in late 2011, makes…Continue Reading Realignment in California and the Consequences for Neighborhood Crime Rates