CJ-7104 v3

Berman, D. A., & Kreit, A. (2020). Ensuring marijuana reform is effective criminal justice reform. Arizona State Law Journal, 52(3), 741–767.
The journal article explores how Arizona should improve its legalization of marijuana to extensively improve the state’s criminal justice policy.

Lofstrom, M., Martin, B., & Raphael, S. (2020). Effect of sentencing reform on racial and ethnic disparities in involvement with the criminal justice system: The case of California’s Proposition 47. Criminology and Public Policy, 19(4), 1165–1208.
This journal article uses different ethnic and racial groups to explore the disparate impacts of recent California sentencing reform on arrest and incarceration rates experienced by California residents.

McConnell, B., & Rasul, I. (2021). Contagious animosity in the field: Evidence from the federal criminal justice system. Journal of Labor Economics, 39(3), 739-785. https://doi.org/10.1086/711180
This journal article presented evidence of contagious animosity in the criminal justice system.

Office of Justice Programs. (2021). Criminal justice issues.
Discusses task force reports and criminal justice issues that are major concerns at the state and national levels with data and research included.

National Research Council. (2014). The growth of incarceration in the United States: Exploring causes and consequences. The National Academies Press.
Discusses the history of incarceration/prison policies and their failures.