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 | Roundtable on Crime Trends
Meeting # 3
April 29, 2014
Keck Center, Room 101
500 Fifth Street, NW
Directions to the meeting
 The goal of the third meeting of the Roundtable on Understanding Crime Trends in the United States is to understand how, and to what extent, the criminal justice system has influenced crime trends over the last two decades. The inquiry is two-fold: (1) Which institutions or practices make a difference (i.e., reduce crime and/or have criminogenic effects)? (2) What is the current or potential impact of those effects on changes over time in aggregate crime rates? The discussions during the meeting are expected to set the stage for one or more published papers on this topic.
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 for the webcast
| The Growth of Incarceration in the United States:
April 30, 2014 | 2:30 p.m.
Pew Conference Center
Carolinas Room
901 E St., NW
Washington, DC (map)
 Jeremy Travis, chair of the committee and president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Bruce Western, vice chair of the committee and professor of sociology at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government will provide an overview of the report and its findings.
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|  | Committee on a Prioritized Plan to Implement a Developmental Approach in Juvenile Justice Reform
Meeting # 3
March 26-27, 2014
Keck Center, Room 201
500 Fifth Street, NW
 On March 26-27 the Committee on a Prioritized Plan to Implement a Developmental Approach to Juvenile Justice Reform, under the direction of the Committee on Law and Justice(CLAJ), held its third meeting. The committee heard practitioner’s perspectives on the Federal Role in Reforming the Nation's Juvenile Justice System. There was also inputs from state assembly leaders who have lead reform as well as state judges. The committee also saw presentations on racial and ethnic disparities and on data collection.
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| | |  | DBASSE Reports Related to Gun Violence and Schools
A 2005 report from the Committee on Law and Justice, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, found that there is scant evidence about the effectiveness of current measures to prevent and control gun violence and outlined a comprehensive research program. In 2003, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and CLAJ studied youth violence in schools: Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence.
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A new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council proposes priorities for a research agenda to improve understanding of the public health aspects of gun-related violence. To view the report and issue brief:
