-Daily News, May 26, 2011 by C.J. Lin
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_18151577?source=most_viewed
Researchers studying the effects of California’s three-strikes law have found a puzzling trend: older adults are being arrested for felonies in droves, while felony arrests of juveniles are dropping…. “In criminology, we assume that people slow down and commit fewer crimes,” said Barry Krisberg. “We may need to revisit that and look at that again.”
-KQED-FM, May 26, 2011 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201105260900
California’s murder rates, released this week, are at the lowest level in more than 40 years…. “Twenty years ago, there were some predicting a huge crime increase, and I think a few of us felt that those predictions were overblown, but I don’t think anybody—well, very few in criminology—were ready to predict a steady decline of the magnitude that we’ve seen.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 2011 by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/27/MN6H1JLDAQ.DTL&type=printable
“We haven’t seen crime this low since Dwight Eisenhower was president. So it is remarkable,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminal justice expert at the UC Berkeley School of Law. “You would have bet that, given the economic downturn, you would have seen more crime. But that’s kind of a myth. We’re challenging a lot of myths.”