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Journals and Magazines

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American Journal of Criminal Law September 1, 1997 - Current

Corrections Today February 1, 1993 - Current

Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling April 1, 2000 - Current

Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology March 1, 1993 - Current

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Bureau of Justice Statistics
The mission of the BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) manages offenders in state prisons, state jails and private correctional facilities that contract with TDCJ. The agency also provides funding and certain oversight of community supervision (previously known as adult probation) and is responsible for the supervision of offenders released from prison on parole or mandatory supervision.
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United States Department of Justice
The mission of the U.S. Dept. of Justice is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.

Jails, sheriffs, and carceral policymaking by Littman, Aaron. Vanderbilt Law Review. May2021, Vol. 74 Issue 4, p861-950. 90p.
Publication Date: May, 2021
The machinery of mass incarceration in America is huge, intricate, and destructive. To understand it and to tame it, scholars and activists look for its levers of power-where are they, who holds them, and what motivates them? This much we know: legislators criminalize, police arrest, prosecutors charge, judges sentence, prison officials confine, and probation and parole officials manage release. As this Article reveals, jailers, too, have their hands on the controls. The sheriffs who run jails-along with the county commissioners who fund them--have tremendous but unrecognized power over the size and shape of our criminal legal system, particularly in rural areas and for people accused or convicted of...

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