Public safety

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Author: Leonard Engel
2008

This report is a ‘call to action’ for Massachusetts state leaders to implement a systemic approach to offender reentry, one that involves traditional as well as non-traditional agencies and collaborates with community leaders and service providers. A collaborative approach is necessary to overcome the inherent limitations of changing criminal justice policy.

Authors: Claire Kaplan and Len Engel
A Workforce and Public Safety Imperative
2007

The Crime and Justice Institute and the Boston Foundation convened a Task Force in June 2006, consisting of 14 leaders from the nonprofit, law enforcement, academic and business communities to kindle discussion and debate the barriers to employment for individuals with criminal records. Co-chaired by Betsy Pattullo, President and CEO of Beacon Health Strategies and Bob Gittens, Vice President of Public Affairs at Northeastern University, the task force went well beyond its original objective to identify opportunities that increase access to employment in the health and human service field for low-risk, qualified applicants with CORI, while continuing to protect vulnerable populations. This report makes a series of recommendations designed to improve criminal justice outcomes for the benefit of ex-offenders, communities, employers and to expand the skilled workforce in the Commonwealth.

Author: John J. Larivee
2001

Rising numbers of inmates, coupled with declining pre-release training and outside supervision, foreshadow an unanticipated and generally unanswered breakdown in the continuum of community safety, particularly in inner cities. New innovations in the prisoner reentry field, both within the Massachusetts correction system and in local communities, hold some promise but these approaches are limited and address only a fraction of the thousands of inmates released each year. This report assesses the current situation in MA and makes recommendations.

Authors: Cheryl Roberts and Elyse Clawson, Crime and Justice Institute
John Doble, Carol Selton, and Andrew Briker, Doble Research Associates
2005

A public opinion study by the Crime and Justice Institute and Doble Research Associates

Because public opinion is an important factor in shaping criminal justice policy, the Crime and Justice Institute partnered with Doble Research Associates to conduct a nonpartisan public opinion study to explore the views of Massachusetts and Boston residents on a range of criminal justice policies. This study specifically sought to determine how much public support exists for evidence-based practices that criminal justice research has shown to be most effective in reducing criminal behavior.

Authors: Len Engel, Meghan Howe, Jennifer Fahey and Julie Finn
2006

The Crime & Justice Institute is proud to present this Criminal and Juvenile Justice Policy Briefing Book as part of its effort to promote effective and efficient criminal justice policies in Massachusetts. This briefing book, sponsored by the Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation, is being presented to Massachusetts political candidates who will impact criminal justice policy going forward. The Crime & Justice Institute (CJI) offers this document with the hope that criminal justice issues will be substantively discussed during this campaign season within the context of the important public interests they address.