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Gabbidon named a Distinguished Alumnus by Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Shaun Gabbidon Image: Penn State Harrisburg Gabbidon named a Distinguished Alumnus by Indiana University of Pennsylvania May 11, 2021 MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – Shaun Gabbidon, distinguished professor of criminal justice in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs, has been named a Distinguished Alumnus by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, an honor bestowed upon fewer than 400 of its more than 150,000 alumni. Gabbidon received his doctoral degree in criminology in 1996. Honored during a virtual ceremony in April, Gabbidon is a world-renowned criminologist. He has served as a fellow at Harvard University s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and has taught at the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sentencing Law and Policy: New study suggests California s prison population reduction via realignment has been generally successful

New study suggests California s prison population reduction via realignment has been generally successful This new entry at The Crime Report, headlined California s Prison Downsizing Offers a Model for Other States, Study Says, reports on notable new research suggesting that crime has not increased dramatically after California was force in the wake of the Plata ruling to reduce its prison population.  Here is the start of the entry describing the research: The success of California s Public Safety Realignment Act in reducing state prison populations without a corresponding increase in crime suggests that other jurisdictions around the country can enact similar reforms without endangering public safety, according to a study published in the latest issue of Criminology & Public Policy, an American Society of Criminology journal.

Decriminalization Delusion | Decriminalization of Drugs in America

The Social Order In July 2015, President Obama paid a press-saturated visit to a federal penitentiary in Oklahoma. The cell blocks that Obama toured had been evacuated in anticipation of his arrival, but after talking to six carefully prescreened inmates, he drew some conclusions about the path to prison. “These are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made,” the president told the waiting reporters. The New York Times seconded this observation in its front-page coverage of Obama’s prison excursion. There is but a “fine line between president and prisoner,” the paper noted. Anyone who “smoked marijuana and tried cocaine,” as the president had as a young man, could end up in the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, according to the

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