There are proven ways to significantly reduce violent crime within the next five years. It requires becoming not “tough on crime,” but “smart on crime” before it happens.
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Pierre Poilievre’s “tough-on-crime” rhetoric relies on discredited ideas that can lead to overly harsh penalties and actually increase crime.
Formerly incarcerated Americans face food insecurity rates double that of the general population. A 1996 law that prohibits drug felons from getting crucial benefits may be partially to blame.
For the first time since 1994, incarcerated individuals can get federal aid to pay for college. A prison education scholar explains how higher education helps those who have run afoul of the law.
Those living in rural areas have more punitive attitudes toward crime and how to control it than city-dwellers, and it’s a major component of the growing urban-rural divide in Canada.
Tough-on-crime models of policing students don’t reduce youth crime, but community engagement programs for at-risk youth can be beneficial.
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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Assistant Professor of Church and Community Ministries, Baylor University
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Senior Lecturer, Flinders Criminology, College of Business, Govenrment and Law, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of New England
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Emeritus professor of Criminology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Ph.D. Candidate, Legal Studies, Carleton University
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Associate Professor of Social Work, Boston College
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Associate Professor of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
