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Hope on the Horizon: A White Paper
The Peace Alliance Foundation (now known as The Peace Alliance Educational Institute) is excited to announce the release of its first white paper entitled "Hope on the Horizon: Making Cents of Peacebuilding."
This is an encouraging overview of what is possible in the field of conflict management and prevention. It lays out a strong case in support of domestic programs that are having a measurable impact at dismantling patterns of violence, all the while being practical and cost effective. It offers both the general public and members of congress tangible information showing how effective this kind of work can be. Our thanks to Marianne Perez for her diligent work on this report. Read more...
Ohio's School Conflict Management Initiative
The State of Ohio leads the United States in school-based conflict management through the work conducted and coordinated by the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management. In 2004 there are more than 1,700 schools with programs. During the 2002-2003 biennium the Commission served more than 95,000 students and over 7,000 staff through its grant training program. Read more...
Community Conferencing
A Community Conference is a meeting of the entire community of people affected by a crime or conflict, that allows them to decide for themselves how to best repair the harm and prevent it from happening again. Everyone gets a chance to speak and be heard, and in doing so a greater sense of understanding and connection is created. A conference gives those who have caused harm a chance to understand the impact of their behavior on others, on themselves, and on the community. Those who have been harmed get a chance to tell how they have been affected and how the damage can be repaired. In addition, families can identify and gain access to needed community-based resources. Read more...
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Evaluating Federal Gang Bills
This report compares the Youth PROMISE Act (HR. 1064 and S. 435) with The Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 456) was introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in January, 2007, and subsequently passed the following October. Its companion bill, the Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Act (H.R. 3547). Learn more... (PDF)
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America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline
Children's Defense Fund. It’s time for America to become America. The Cradle to Prison Pipeline crisis can be reduced to one simple fact: The United States of America is not a level playing field for all children and our nation does not value and protect all children’s lives equally. Learn more... (PDF)
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An Expanded Mandate for Peacebuilding
Center for Strategic and International Studies. The first section of this two-part report examines the evolution of peace builign in the State Department. The second section of the report looks at the peace-building function of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Learn more... (PDF)
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Foreign Assistance for Peace
Center for Strategic and International Studies. This report looks at the peace-building function at USAID. It examines the evolution of reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) in the Bush administration's foreign assistance strategy and describes the effort to integrate the State Department-USAID budget process for foreign operations, including peace building. Learn more... (PDF)
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AND JUSTICE FOR SOME: Differential Treatment of Youth of Color in the Justice System
National Council on Crime and Delinquency. The overrepresentation of people of color in the nation’s prisons, particularly African American men and women, has received much attention in recent years. The disproportionate representation of racial or ethnic minorities is also found in all stages of the juvenile justice system. Learn more... (PDF)
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The Economic Return on PCCD's Investment in Research-based Programs: A Cost-Benefit Assessment of Delinquency Prevention in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) has made a considerable investment in supporting community crime and delinquency prevention through the funding of proven-effective strategies under the state’s Research-based Programs Initiative. Learn more... (PDF)
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Potential for Change: Public Attitudes and Policy Preferences for Juvenile Justice Systems Reform
Center for Children's Law and Policy. New polling data on Americans’ attitudes about youth, race and crime reveal strong support for juvenile justice reforms that focus on rehabilitating youthful offenders rather than locking them up in adult prisons. The public also believes that African American and poor youth receive less favorable treatment than those who are white or middle class. Learn more... (PDF)
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Safer Streets: Cutting repeat crimes by juvenile offenders
Fight Crime Invest in Kids. Punishment alone will not be enough to make our streets safer. Research has identified several effective interventions that can keep young offenders from committing further crimes. Learn more... (PDF)
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Rehabilitation Versus Incarceration of Juvenile Offenders: Public Preferences in Four Models for Change States
Over the past few decades, American juvenile justice policy has become progressively more punitive. During the 1990s, in particular, legislatures across the country enacted statutes under which growing numbers of youths can be prosecuted in criminal courts and sentenced to prison. Indeed, today, in almost every state, youths who are 13 or 14 years of age (or less) can be tried and punished as adults for a broad range of offenses, including nonviolent crimes. Even within the juvenile system, punishments have grown increasingly severe. Learn more... (PDF)
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Cold-blooded Costs
New Orleans City Business. As criminologist Peter Scharf waited in a Sprint store on Veterans Memorial Boulevard, three black teenagers in line behind him lifted up their shirts and compared gunshot scars like other high school students boast about the bones they’ve broken skateboarding or skiing.... Read more (PDF)
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Experts on youth violence: Intervene early or pay dearly later
CNN.com. A college student embarks on a shooting spree, taking 32 lives. A teenager with an assault rifle opens fire on holiday shoppers in a department store in middle America. And, long before that, two youths turn the halls of their high school into a virtual abattoir, leaving some 13 dead before killing themselves... Read more (PDF)
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Blocking the Transmission of Violence
The New York Times. LAST SUMMER, MARTIN TORRES WAS WORKING AS A COOK IN AUSTIN, Tex., when, on the morning of Aug. 23, he received a call from a relative. His 17-year-old nephew, Emilio, had been murdered. According to the police, Emilio was walking down a street on Chicago’s South Side when someone shot him in the chest, possibly the culmination of an ongoing dispute... Read more (PDF)
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Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations’
The New York Times. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s
prisoners.... Read more (PDF)
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The Wrong Way to Fight Gang Crime
The Washington Post. This Memorial Day, the District is starting the summer with a decline in crime. Homicides are down 22.6 percent from the same point a year ago, according to the D.C. police department, and violent crime in general is running about 3 percent below last year... Read more (PDF)
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Turning Point in the Gang Crisis
The Nation. The funeral of Bo Taylor a few weeks ago last was a testament to the gang peace process he helped inspire
in Los Angeles... Read more (PDF)
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Two Separate Societies: One in Prison, One Not
The Washington Post. Forty years ago, the Kerner Commission concluded in its landmark study of the causes of racial disturbances in the United States in the 1960s: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal." Today we are still moving toward two societies: one incarcerated and one not... Read more (PDF)
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