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“The fewer opportunities a child has in their neighborhood, the greater their odds of ending up in the hospital with a firearm injury."

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

You are invited to browse the National Registry of Exonerations' new website, explore its features & navigation and bookmark it for future use. Sign up for the Registry's newsletter under the Publications tab and learn about upcoming website training for the public. Go to exonerationregistry.org

A great reminder about the promise of #DrugCourts by Steve Belenko. This model can reduce substance use and crime, improve lives and save money. But we need to continue to do better in terms of access, treatment, and the use of EBP. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mak...

We are hiring a lecturer in our criminology program (non tenure-track) to start August 2025. Check out UF and the Florida🌞. More details here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Reminder! Abstracts due in about 2 weeks!

Reminder. 👀

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Call for submissions 👀. Volume 11 of ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing Handbook. Abstracts due March 15, 2025.

‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires

Food for thought

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We describe the goals and purposes of the upcoming special issue on community-centered violence prevention. Papers due Jan 31. youtu.be/nTEF0yxuiAQ

A number of colleges, including Harvard, USC and Cornell, are advising their international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

The ASC Division of Corrections and Sentencing is recruiting a new editor/s for our handbook series. Take a 👀

Just about complete with state turnout rates, with still just a few more states left to post final numbers. Here's a 2020 (Blue) to 2024 (Orange) turnout rates with green arrows identifying turnout rate increases

Curious about clemency and presidential pardons? Here's 1. a quick figure showing the *annual rate* of pardons, commutations, respites, and remissions for each president since T Roosevelt, & 2. the total *number* over the entire span of the administration [DOJ OPA data]. justice.gov/pardon/cleme...

We are hiring in criminology/criminal justice and data science, both broadly defined. Application review begins November 24. Take a look! UF is implementing AI approaches in multiple ways campus-wide. Much support here for these endeavors.