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                            Funding & Awards
 How Justice System Realign in California: The Policies and Systematic Effects of Prison Downsizing
Award Information
Awardee
              Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University
Award #
              2012-IJ-CX-0002
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Stanford, CA
Awardee County
              Santa Clara County
Congressional District
              18
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $145,445
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $145,445)
Under this award the Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC) will assess Realignment outcomes in California. Beginning October 1, 2011, individuals in California convicted of felonies classified as non-serious, non-sexual and non-violent began serving their sentence in county jails instead of state prisons. In addition, California's counties took over parole and probation supervision and began providing rehabilitative alternatives to jail (to the degree available) for those that are eligible. The SCJC will use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the goals and approaches to the various Realignment plans for each California county. Further, the SCJC will examine the discretionary decisions of criminal justice actors (i.e. judges, prosecutors, probation chiefs, defense attorneys, and sheriffs) in response to the new legislative mandate.  The research will consist of three complementary projects: Project I: Explaining County Level Variation on Realignment Approaches; Project II: Case Studies of County Implementation of and Variance Created by Realignment; Project III: Scenario Based Studies to Capture the Exercise of Discretion by Key Actors in the Criminal Justice System under Realignment. nca/ncf



  
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                      California Prison Downsizing and Its Impact on Local Criminal Justice Systems
                  Assessing Judicial Sentencing Preferences After Public Safety Realignment: A Survey of California Judges
                  Follow the Money: How California Counties Are Spending Their Public Safety Realignment Funds
                  Voices from the Field: How California Stakeholders View Public Safety Realignment
                  Voices From the Field: How California Stakeholders View Public Safety Realignment, Working Paper

  
Date Created: August 23, 2012
    
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