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Jennifer Trone

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The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration

Police in America arrest millions of people each year, and the likelihood that arrest will lead to jail incarceration has increased steadily. Ending mass incarceration and repairing its extensive collateral consequences thus must begin by focusing on the front end of the system: police work. Recognizing the roughly 18,000 police agencies around the ...

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Rebecca Neusteter, Ram Subramanian, Jennifer Trone, Mawia Khogali, Cindy Reed

August 12, 2019

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David and Goliath

A Small City Police Department Takes Aim at a Monster Epidemic

Special Report

Jennifer Trone

Special Report

Thunder in Oklahoma City

Special Report

Jennifer Trone

Special Report

End of an Era?

The Impact of Drug Law Reform in New York City

In 2009, the latest in a series of reforms essentially dismantled New York State’s Rockefeller Drug Laws, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of a range of felony drug charges and increasing eligibility for diversion to treatment. To study the impact of these reforms, Vera partnered with the John Jay College of Criminal Jus ...

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Jim Parsons, Qing Wei, Christian Henrichson, Ernest Drucker, Jennifer Trone

January 20, 2015

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A Generation Later

What We've Learned About Zero Tolerance in Schools

Zero tolerance school discipline policies—mandating suspension or expulsion of students for misconduct—have gained tremendous momentum in middle and high schools since they were introduced in the late 1980s. This report looks at existing research to answer three questions: How does zero tolerance discipline affect individual students and the overa ...

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Jacob Kang-Brown, Jennifer Trone, Jennifer Fratello, Tarika Daftary-Kapur

December 11, 2013

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From Courts to Communities

The Right Response to Truancy, Running Away, and Other Status Offenses

Young people who run away from home, skip school, or engage in other risky behaviors that are only prohibited because of their age end up in courtrooms every year by the thousands. Responding to these cases, called “status offenses,” in the juvenile justice system can lead to punitive outcomes that are out of proportion to the young person’s action ...

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Annie Salsich, Jennifer Trone

December 09, 2013

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Coming of Age with Stop and Frisk

Experiences, Self-Perceptions, and Public Safety Implications

Amid the debate about stop and frisk in New York City, its relationship to reductions in crime, and concerns about racial profiling, one question has gone largely unexplored: How does being stopped by police, and the frequency of those stops, affect those who experience them at a young age? In New York City, at least half of all recorded stops annu ...

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Jennifer Fratello, Andres F. Rengifo, Jennifer Trone

September 19, 2013

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A Short History of Vera's Work on Sentencing and Corrections

Since its founding in 1961, Vera has mounted a wide range of research, demonstration, and technical assistance projects in the area of sentencing and corrections. Vera's strategy for spurring innovation has been to advance each of the purposes criminal sentences serve, often simultaneously, resisting temptation to privilege any one purpose or const ...

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Jennifer Trone

July 31, 2003

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Justice and Safety for All

Promoting Dialogue Between Public Defenders and Victim Advocates

The lawyers who defend individuals charged with domestic violence and the advocates who work just as passionately for the rights and needs of victims tend to fall into opposing camps. Misunderstanding, suspicion, and occasionally open hostility exist between these professionals. Yet because defenders and advocates often serve the same families, imp ...

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