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Data Collected Under the First Step Act, 2019

This report, the first required under the First Step Act of 2018, presents selected characteristics of federal prisoners and facility-level statistics, including— marital, veteran, citizenship, and English-speaking status education levels medical conditions...

Discipling in the Age of Biblical Illiteracy

What can you do to get people to dust off their Bibles? Only 20 percent of Americans say they’ve read the entire Bible at least once. And only 22 percent say they systematically read through a section of the Bible a little each day.  A third of Americans never read...

Educational Aftercare and Reintegration Toolkit

In 2005-2006, juvenile justice professionals in Pennsylvania’s67 counties were assessed to determine their current aftercarepractices. As a result of this assessment, this Toolkit waswritten in 2006 to address one of their main areas of concern:helping youth returning...

Elder Victimization

Elder victimization is an important subset of crime. While people age 65 and older experience the same crimes as the rest of the population, they are at increased risk for certain types of victimization, including financial victimization, neglect, and physical,...