Elizabeth Griffiths
@bethgriffiths.bsky.social
Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice; criminologist and sociologist; my time is spent reading, writing, sailing, and anything dogs
Check out this piece on specific kinds of drug underenforcement both quantitatively and qualitatively, recently published in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, with Kay Levine, Josh Hinkle, and @volkantopalli.bsky.social
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Law in Inaction: The Origins and Implications of Chronic Drug Law Underenforcement in One Southern County
Common accounts of police and prosecutorial nonenforcement discretion tend to valorize individual declination choices as demonstrations of mercy and resource constraint. Simultaneously, these accounts...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Check out this piece on specific kinds of drug underenforcement both quantitatively and qualitatively, recently published in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, with Kay Levine, Josh Hinkle, and @volkantopalli.bsky.social
scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol114/...
scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol114/...
Interested in the association between gun dealers and the distribution of gun violence in cities? Check out this article published today with my colleagues Jie Xu, Sandy Xie, Richard Stansfield, and @daniel-semenza.bsky.social
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Dealing with guns: investigating the spatial attraction of gun dealers on localized gun violence - Journal of Experimental Criminology
Objectives Test the spatial relationship between the locations of federally licensed firearms dealers (FFLs) and gun violence using shuttered FFLs as a counterfactual. Methods Using a quasi-experiment...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Interested in the association between gun dealers and the distribution of gun violence in cities? Check out this article published today with my colleagues Jie Xu, Sandy Xie, Richard Stansfield, and @daniel-semenza.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New study with @bethgriffiths.bsky.social, Kay Levine, and Joshua Hinkle I which we find lack of a relationship between law enforcement effort and yield from search warrants in drug cases.
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February 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New study with @bethgriffiths.bsky.social, Kay Levine, and Joshua Hinkle I which we find lack of a relationship between law enforcement effort and yield from search warrants in drug cases.
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Many years ago, when I was on faculty at Emory University, I had the honor of having lunch with President Carter and a few other folks from the university. He is the personification of a life of service and humanitarianism. The world has lost a great man
December 30, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Many years ago, when I was on faculty at Emory University, I had the honor of having lunch with President Carter and a few other folks from the university. He is the personification of a life of service and humanitarianism. The world has lost a great man
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This Black Friday, you'll probably notice the effects of inflation on price tags. What might not be so obvious though is its effect on the criminal legal system.
Each year, inflation makes the system more punitive – and that's not a good deal.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06...
Each year, inflation makes the system more punitive – and that's not a good deal.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06...
How inflation makes your state’s criminal justice system harsher today than it was yesterday
The case for increasing the monetary level for felony theft.
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November 29, 2024 at 2:56 PM
This Black Friday, you'll probably notice the effects of inflation on price tags. What might not be so obvious though is its effect on the criminal legal system.
Each year, inflation makes the system more punitive – and that's not a good deal.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06...
Each year, inflation makes the system more punitive – and that's not a good deal.
www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06...
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It’s a mistake to ask this question because it assumes Trump’s rationality.
He wants to do this because it makes him feel powerful. He doesn’t care if the effects are good or bad. Indeed, the more destruction he causes, or the more people fear destruction he may cause, the more powerful he feels.
He wants to do this because it makes him feel powerful. He doesn’t care if the effects are good or bad. Indeed, the more destruction he causes, or the more people fear destruction he may cause, the more powerful he feels.
A question I've been debating with economist friends is what Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariffs. I mean, he can't be demanding that Canada and Mexico — with whom we have a free trade agreement! — open their markets. Now he says it's about immigration and drugs 2/
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
It’s a mistake to ask this question because it assumes Trump’s rationality.
He wants to do this because it makes him feel powerful. He doesn’t care if the effects are good or bad. Indeed, the more destruction he causes, or the more people fear destruction he may cause, the more powerful he feels.
He wants to do this because it makes him feel powerful. He doesn’t care if the effects are good or bad. Indeed, the more destruction he causes, or the more people fear destruction he may cause, the more powerful he feels.
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Just posted a new one-pager analyzing differences in major crime trends between New York City and the rest of the State.
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Major Crime Trends Differ in New York City and New York State - JohnJayREC.nyc — John Jay College's Research and Evaluation Center
One-page analysis of crime data from counties in the State of New York.
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November 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Just posted a new one-pager analyzing differences in major crime trends between New York City and the rest of the State.
johnjayrec.nyc/2024/11/20/d...
johnjayrec.nyc/2024/11/20/d...
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The school safety market is a $3B industry but most products, like bulletproof whiteboards and AI cameras, have zero evidence that they work.
I spoke tonight with CBS Eye on America about my skepticism and how schools can better invest to keep children safe.
www.cbsnews.com/video/a-look...
I spoke tonight with CBS Eye on America about my skepticism and how schools can better invest to keep children safe.
www.cbsnews.com/video/a-look...
A look at the $3 billion classroom safety industry
With school shootings continuing throughout the U.S., classroom safety has become big business. Mark Strassmann takes a look at how some companies are trying to keep students safe.
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November 20, 2024 at 1:25 AM
The school safety market is a $3B industry but most products, like bulletproof whiteboards and AI cameras, have zero evidence that they work.
I spoke tonight with CBS Eye on America about my skepticism and how schools can better invest to keep children safe.
www.cbsnews.com/video/a-look...
I spoke tonight with CBS Eye on America about my skepticism and how schools can better invest to keep children safe.
www.cbsnews.com/video/a-look...
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U.S. cities have been shifting funding from social services to policing since 2008. What effect has this had on their crime rates? I explore the research on this in a new Annual Review of Criminology article. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Local Government Spending: Policing Versus Social Services | Annual Reviews
US cities have recently increased the share of their budgets devoted to policing and decreased the share devoted to social services. However, a growing body of research demonstrates that social servic...
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November 18, 2024 at 3:34 PM
U.S. cities have been shifting funding from social services to policing since 2008. What effect has this had on their crime rates? I explore the research on this in a new Annual Review of Criminology article. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
How do the higher courts handle prosecutorial misconduct? For a short piece on the Texas appellate courts’ consideration of prosecutorial overreach, check out “Prosecutorial Actus Reus” in the International Journal on Responsibility #criminology #lawandsociety
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Prosecutorial Actus Reus: Appellate Review of Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Diminishment of Responsibility
The socio-historical concept of criminal responsibility links the action (actus reus) and mental state (mens rea), or intention, of the actor (i.e., the defendant) to determine legal and moral liabili...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:16 PM
How do the higher courts handle prosecutorial misconduct? For a short piece on the Texas appellate courts’ consideration of prosecutorial overreach, check out “Prosecutorial Actus Reus” in the International Journal on Responsibility #criminology #lawandsociety
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November 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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Canadian rainbow skies
November 18, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Canadian rainbow skies
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Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO
November 19, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO
The loves of my life 💕 #pomeranians
November 18, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The loves of my life 💕 #pomeranians