JUSTICE RESEARCH AND POLICY

Justice Research and Policy is a research journal designed for practitioners. This semiannual, peer-reviewed, electronic publication contains research articles that focus on issues of concern to state and local policymakers and practitioners, and address the implications of the findings for decisionmaking.

Current Issue (Volume 14, No. 2, 2012)
Table of Contents

• Charting the Evolution of Structure and Determinacy in State Sentencing and Corrections Policies 1970-2010
  Don Stemen and Andres F. Rengifo
  Commentary by Mike Connelly
  Commentary by Kim Steven Hunt
  
  
• Drug Treatment Courts: A Quantitative Review of Study and Treatment Quality
  Leticia Gutierrez and Guy Bourgon
  
  
• Examining Metal Theft in Context: An Opportunity Theory Approach
  Chad Posick, Michael Rocque, Kevin Whiteacre, and David Mazeika
  
  
• Understanding Police Gang Data at the Aggregate Level: An Examination of the Reliability of National Youth Gang Survey Data (Research Note)
  Charles M. Katz, Andrew M. Fox, Chester L. Britt, and Phillip Stevenson