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"Helping the Progress Continue, Improving Public Conduct and the Public Spaces in Memphis,"  The Center for Livable cities, Washington, DC, November, 1999

"America's After-School Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime, or Youth Enrichment and Achievement,"  Fight Crime Invest in Kids, Washington, DC, September, 1999

"Getting to Know Neighborhoods,"  G. Thomas Kingsley and Kathryn L.S. Pettit, National Institute of Justice Journal, October 2000

"Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence," Robin Karr-Morse, New York, 1997

"The 5% Solution to Crime,"   George L. Kelling (School of Criminal Justice at
Rutgers University and Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute), The Wall Street
Journal, June 22, 2000

"Poking Holes in the Theory of 'Broken Windows'," D.W. Miller, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001, http://chronicle.com (Section: Research and Publishing, page A14)

"Set Realistic Goals for Recruiting Police," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Editorial Section, Sunday, May 13, 2001, page C-10

"Assessments: Sometimes Blaming the Victim Makes Sense," Alan Ehrenhalt, Governing Magazine, April 2001, pp. 6-8

"Trials Without Truth," William Pizzi, University of Colorado School of Law,
NYU Press (www.nyupress.nyu.edu)

"Death Penalty Flawed," Bob Herbert (New York Times writer), Dallas Morning News, Febreuary 16, 20022/16/02

"Standing Up to Street Gangs: Slow-Motion Mass Murder," Los Angeles
Times, March 17, 2002

"Gotham--Life in the City--Street Fight," Robert Kolker, New York Magazine, April 22, 2002

"Crime Without Punishment," Eli Lehrer, The Weekly Standard, May 27, 2002

"Homicides Rise Again, Threatening Oakland's Renaissance," New York Times,  August 11, 2002

"Taking Aim At Apathy," Adrian Walker, Boston Globe, July 11, 2002

"The Memphis Strategic Team Against Rape and Sexual Assault: One City's Struggle To Find A New Way Of Doing Business," Christopher Leon Jones, Jr., The University of Memphis Law Review, Vol 32, Number 2, Winter 2002

"When Jail Lures More Than College Does," Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, Commercial Appeal,  September 3, 2002

"Women In Prison--What Children Suffer for Justice," Star Tribune Editorial, Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 5, 2002

"Beyond Target Hardening," Russ Norris, Law and Order Magazine, September 2002

"Fierce Entanglements," Deborah Sontag, New York Times Magazine, November 17, 2002

"Death Penalty Gains Unlikely Defenders-Professors Speak Out in Support of Executions," USA Today, January 7, 2003

"City Maps Long-Term Homeless Program," Chicago Tribune, January 22, 2003

"The LAPD Is Targeting Crime on Skid Row, Not the Homeless," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2003

"Prison Rates Among Blacks Reach a Peak, Report Finds," Fox Butterfield,
New York Times, April 7, 2003

"Do Police Matter? An Analysis of New York City's Police Reforms," George Kelling and William H. Sousa, Jr., Manhattan Institute for Police Research, Volume 22, December 2001

"Mueller's Mandate-The FBI Chief Has a Little Job To Do-Overhaul the
Agency From Top to Bottom," Chita Ragavan, US News and World Report,
May 26, 2003

"Prisons Are Good," Theodore Dalrymple, Forbes Magazine, May 26, 2003

"For Bloomberg, the Crime Rate Keeps Falling," Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, June 10, 2003

"Initiatives Aim to Halt Cycle of Felons Returning to Jail," Paul von Zielbauer, New York Times, August 4, 2003

"At Long Last, South L.A. Has a Prayer -- the Police," Heather Mac Donald, Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2003

"Bush's War On Cops," Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly, September, 2003

"Science stressed on death penalty," Frank Phillips, The Boston Globe, September 24, 2003

"Court Treatment System Is Found to Help Drug Offenders Stay Clean," Paul von Zielbauer, The New York Times, November, 9, 2003

"Court Supervised Treatment Plan Is Found to Help Drug Offenders," Paul von Zielbauer, The New York Times,  November 9, 2003

"Panel calls research key to fighting crime," Sean P. Murphy, The Boston Globe, April 6, 2004

“Predictions of Future Violence Called Unreliable,” Chicago Tribune, April 1, 2004

"With Longer Sentences, Cost of Fighting Crime Is Higher,"  Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, May 3, 2004

"A Surge in Sensational Crimes Stokes Fears, Even as Statistics Show a Safer City," Campbell Robertson, The New York Times, June 24, 2004.

"Frequent Fire," Scott Glover, Matt Lait and Doug Smith, Times Staff Writers, Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2004.

The Cracks in 'broken windows' http://www.boston.com
Boston Globe, February 19, 2006

"Debt to Society is Least of Costs for Ex-convicts."
New York Times, February 23, 2006, http://nytimes.com

No Cracks In 'Broken Windows' Strategy, http://www.cbsnews.com
CBS News, February 28, 2006

"Fewer police patrol city's densest streets."
Denver Post, March 12, 2006, http://www.DenverPost.com

Pregnancy Policy: Law and Philosophy, http://policechiefmagazine.org
March 2006

Bratton's 'Broken Windows', http://latimes.com
April 20, 2006

NYC Real Time Crime Center Tracks Suspects, www.wtopnews.com
May 2006

Up, up, up goes city's crime, www.commercialappeal.com
May 2006

Intelligence & Security Committee: Report into the London Terrorist Attacks on July 7, 2005
May 2006

Violent Crime Rises in U.S.: District Reports 5 Percent Jump as Robberies Spike June 2006

Memphis Councilwoman wants fewer officers on desk jobs.: www.knoxnews.com - The Knoxville Sentinel
June 2006

"It's a crime what we don't know about crime": www.washingtonpost.com
July 2006

"New York Cops: Still the Finest": CityJournal.org
July 2006

"In Brooklyn Court, A Route Out of Jail For the Mentally Ill": Wall Street Journal.org
August 2006

"One in Every 32 Adults Was in Prison, Jail, On Probation, or on Parole at the End of 2005,"  Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, November, 2006

"Probation and Parole in the United States, 2005," Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, November, 2006

"For many of USA's inmates, crime runs in the family," USA Today, January 28, 2008

"Crime study disputes immigration claims," Daily Breeze, February 21, 2008
 


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