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Feb 6, 2024 · February 6, 2024. Ongoing reductions achieved in shootings, homicides, vehicle thefts, other major crimes. Continued declines across most major crime categories prevailed during January. 2024, compared to the first month of last year, and included substantial drops in murder, rape, burglary, and felony assault.
Mar 6, 2024 · Incidents of shootings, murder, and other bellwether crimes in New York City were markedly reduced again in February compared to the same month last year, while major offenses committed in the city’s subway system dropped more than 15 percent. Throughout the five boroughs, overall crime continued its downward trajectory, dipping another 1.1%.
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The number of Index crimes reported in New York State increased 1.7 percent in 2020 as compared to the previous year. Violent crime increased by 1 percent. There were fewer reported rapes (-15.5%) and rob-beries (-3.1%) but increases in reported mur-ders and aggravated assaults.
- The Norwegian Setting
- Recidivism, Employment, and Job Training
- Family and Criminal Network Spillovers
- Feasibility of Reform
Our work studies the effects of incarceration in Norway, a setting with two key advantages. First, we are able to link several administrative data sources to construct a panel dataset containing complete records of the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of every Norwegian who has been incarcerated. We can further link this information to o...
Our research on the effects of incarceration on the offender, using the random assignment of judges as an instrument, yields three key findings.3First, imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior. We find that incarceration lowers the probability that an individual will reoffend within five years by 27 percentage points and reduces the corre...
While understanding the effects of incarceration on the offender is an important first step, capturing spillover effects is also important for evaluating criminal justice policy and designing effective prison systems. Children in particular could be affected either positively or negatively by having a parent incarcerated, a matter we explore.4 How ...
Our research on Norway’s criminal justice system serves as a proof of concept that time spent in prison with a focus on rehabilitation can result in positive outcomes. The Norwegian prison system increases job training, raises employment, and reduces crime, mostly due to changes for individuals who were not employed prior to imprisonment. While the...
Jan 6, 2021 · In calendar 2020, overall crime was lower than in 2019, dropping to a new benchmark of 95,552 reported incidents – representing 681 fewer victims than last year and 11,668 fewer victims than in 2014, the first year of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
Mar 22, 2022 · Published: March 22, 2022. herdesign/Getty. End Mass Incarceration. Changing Incentives. Cutting Jail & Prison Populations. Social & Economic Harm. In 2019 New York State adopted a law ending the assessment of cash bail in most cases involving misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.
40% 20% 0% -20% -40% -60% -80% www.criminaljustice.ny.gov. Change in Crime Volume: 2012 vs. 2021. Between 2012 and 2021, Index crime declined, with 108,192 fewer crimes reported statewide. This represents a 23.9 percent reduction in the volume of reported crime over the 10-year period. Reported Index crime remains near the 2019 historic low.