NYC Crime, Control, and Criminal Justice Policy in the Age of Trump

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

The combination of the activist policies of the federal government toward crime control efforts in large urban cities (i.e. national guard deployment; reductions to federally funded crime prevention programs and to research addressing racial disparities in the justice system; state budget cuts), along with the election of a new mayor of New York, presents difficult and unique challenges for policy makers. This panel will examine how the mayor and local officials can craft both just and effective crime control policies in the face of declining federal resources and unpredictable federal interventions. Panelists will present and discuss research on effective and promising programs for community-based crime and violence prevention and policing. The panel will also discuss how the new mayor might implement such programs in an environment of an emerging fiscal crisis and an increasingly hostile federal administration. Topics will include the current state of the plan to close Rikers Island; the utility of increasing resources to policing versus building the capacity of non-profits and civil society; research on the relationship between immigration (documented and undocumented) and crime; recent changes in deportation policy and implementation.

Sub Unit

• Regional Spotlight Session

Presider

• Michael Jacobson, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance

Panelists

• Michael Jacobson, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance

• Stanley Richards, The Fortune Society

• Elizabeth Glazer, Vital City and New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice

• Patrick Sharkey, Princeton University

Discussant

• Nancy Lavigne, Rutgers-Newark

Session Organizer

• Michael Jacobson, CUNY Graduate Center and CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance