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Johanna Lacoe

@jrlacoe

Policy scholar, criminal and juvenile justice, ed, housing, employment. Research director @CAPolicyLab @UCBerkeley. All opinions are my own. (she/her)
Joined May 2014
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Johanna Lacoe @jrlacoe
California’s policy changes have made a real difference in our prison population! Learn more in our brief and at our Sacramento event on Monday.
California Policy Lab Verified account @CAPolicyLab Nov 5
📉NEW RESEARCH from the nonpartisan California Policy Lab shows that criminal justice policy reforms enacted during the past two decades have led to substantial reductions in racial and ethnic disparities in prison incarceration in California 🧵 (1/7): capolicylab.org/racial-and-eth…
A slide titled "Key Findings" stating: "The groups with the highest starting rates saw the biggest drops. The Black incarceration rate fell from 2,266 to 1,179 per 100,000 residents, while the White rate fell from 288 to 139." Below is a line chart titled "Incarceration rates by race/ethnicity: Prison inmates per 100,000 Californians (2005-2024)" showing five lines for Black, American Indian, Hispanic, White, and Asian/Pacific Islander Californians. The Black incarceration rate starts highest at over 2,000 per 100,000 and declines sharply after three marked policy reforms (October 2011, November 2014, and March 2020), ending below 1,200. The American Indian rate follows a similar declining pattern starting around 1,200. Hispanic, White, and Asian/Pacific Islander rates remain much lower and relatively flat throughout, clustered near the bottom of the chart.
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Johanna Lacoe @jrlacoe
New work on criminal justice policy in CA - check it out.
California Policy Lab Verified account @CAPolicyLab Nov 7, 2024
New in CRIMINOLOGY & Public Policy: Study shows the impact of the In re Humphrey decision in San Francisco (study is open access / available to the public)
"These findings suggest that requiring bail to be set at affordable levels increases pretrial releases overall, specifically releases to pretrial supervision programs, with improvements in case outcomes and no apparent increase in subsequent criminal justice system contact."
Congratulations to our colleagues, @jrlacoe, Alissa Skog, and @MiaBird on publishing their research: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… #SanFrancisco #CriminalJusticeReform #Bail #CaLeg
Screen shot of text that reads: Pretrial reform is driving criminal justice policy debates across the nation. The In re Humphrey decision required the San Francisco County criminal court to set bail levels based on defendant ability to pay rather than the county bail schedule. Under this new policy, the rate of pretrial detention fell by 11%. We find defendants released pretrial were less likely to be convicted (a decline of 3 percentage points) in the post-Humphrey period. This decline in conviction rates was driven primarily by a reduction in the likelihood of plea bargaining. These case outcome results are robust to an alternative strategy using propensity score matching and a difference-in-difference estimator to estimate effects for those most likely to be affected by the policy change. There was no consistent, statistically significant change in subsequent arrests or convictions post-Humphrey across the estimation strategies.
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Johanna Lacoe @jrlacoe
New research on bail policy!
California Policy Lab Verified account @CAPolicyLab Aug 27, 2024
📣NEW REPORT: "The Short-Term Impacts of Bail Policy on Crime in Los Angeles." The California Policy Lab analyzed impacts on jail population, crime reports, and arrests from 3 recent bail policy changes in Los Angeles: capolicylab.org/short-term-imp… #LosAngeles
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