John Jay College Roundtable Report Offers Insights on Punitiveness in America (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
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(Source: John Jay College of Criminal Justice) March 25, 2016, New York, NY - John Jay College of Criminal Justice President Jeremy Travis today released a report on the deliberations of The Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Punitiveness in America, which was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Roundtable hosted 36 national and international scholars who met for two days in April 2015 to address a complex and profound question: `Why is America so punitive?` The Roundtable was convened on the heels of a closely related project, the National Academies report on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. That project was...