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Qing Wei

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End of an Era?

The Impact of Drug Law Reform in New York City

In 2009, the latest in a series of reforms essentially dismantled New York State’s Rockefeller Drug Laws, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of a range of felony drug charges and increasing eligibility for diversion to treatment. To study the impact of these reforms, Vera partnered with the John Jay College of Criminal Jus ...

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Jim Parsons, Qing Wei, Christian Henrichson, Ernest Drucker, Jennifer Trone

January 20, 2015

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Using Administrative Data to Prioritize Jail Reentry Services

Findings from the Comprehensive Transition Planning Project

Vera’s Substance Use and Mental Health Program partnered with the New York City Department of Correction to design methods for identifying people in the city’s jail system who were most in need of services to prepare them for reentry into the community. The result was the creationof the Service Priority Indicator—a simple screening tool for targeti ...

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Jim Parsons, Qing Wei

October 01, 2012

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Do marijuana arrests help control violent crime?

In 2010, the New York City police made more than 50,000 arrests for the lowest-level marijuana offenses—possession and smoking marijuana in public. This is about 10,000 more than the total number of NYPD marijuana arrests between 1978 and 1995. And most of the arrestees were young minority men, who now account for more than 80 percent of total mari ...

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