The Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Sciences to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking has been released to the public! This was truly a collaborative effort with several agencies across the Executive Branch and I am very proud to be mentioned as a contributor National Institute of Justice

For his CNN piece on how some large retailers are using body-worn cameras to thwart shoplifters, Nathaniel Meyersohn spoke with CCJ's Ernesto Lopez and Thaddeus Lateef Johnson: cnn.com/2024/06/05/bus…

(1/6) OUT TODAY: CCJ’s Crime Trends Working Group released a roadmap to strengthen the nation’s crime data infrastructure and better equip policymakers with timely, accurate, and usable data essential to effectively address crime: counciloncj.foleon.com/crime-trends-w…

There's no easy answer to whether crime is up or down. Many factors - including offense type, timeframe, and data source – are essential to consider. Ahead of tonight's presidential debate, we've pulled together resources to help explain what we know - and don't - about crime 🧵

Board of Directors member Jeremy Travis has spent his career working for a more just and effective criminal justice system, in government, academia, and the nonprofit sector. He is a senior fellow at Columbia Justice Lab and formerly served as VP of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures.

New article in Journal of Crime and Justice 🚨. Our analysis (co-authored with Andrea Giuffre) explores the role of siblings in the legal socialization process, finding that the sibling experience of police contact may constitute a symbiotic harm – one that flows b/w familial relationships.

Join us! On Thursday CCJ will release our mid-year 2024 crime report, analyzing trends in a dozen offenses across 39 cities. Panelists will discuss the findings as well as recommendations for improving the country’s crime data infrastructure. Register at: events.zoom.us/ev/AkajX5gfxac…

OUT TODAY: CCJ’s mid-year 2024 crime trends report finds that homicide and most other violent crimes have dropped to pre-pandemic levels in a sample of U.S. cities. Explore the full analysis by Ernesto Lopez and Bobby Boxerman, PhD: counciloncj.org/crime-trends-i…

CCJ Sr. Research Specialist Ernesto Lopez & members of our Crime Trends Working Group–Thomas Abt, Delrice Adams, & Chair John Roman–will discuss recent crime trends & the importance of timely, reliable data at The NCJA's Forum on CJ in D.C.: forumoncriminaljustice.org/agenda

CCJ Sr. Research Specialist Ernesto Lopez joined Crime Trends Working Group members John Roman, Thomas Abt, & Delrice Adams yesterday for a panel on crime trends & crime data at The NCJA Forum on Criminal Justice. Learn more about the group's work: counciloncj.org/crime-trends-w…

🧵Today Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annual victimization survey. It covers crimes experienced from 7/12/2022 to 11/30/23. Data on crimes reported to police during CY2023 are due out soon from FBI; there will likely be differences. For now, some key takeaways: bjs.ojp.gov/library/public…

It was great to get together in Austin last week with CCJ's terrific board members and staff! The team was also fortunate to hear from Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht and Tony Fabelo, senior fellow for justice policy at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.

Today, the The White House announced an Executive Order outlining actions to reduce gun violence. It includes direction to improve the collection of gun violence data – a priority highlighted in a set of recommendations from CCJ's Crime Trends Working Group: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Work on domestic violence trends is out with the Council on Criminal Justice (work with Alex Piquero). I estimate probabilities of non-reporting from NCVS and then up-adjust NIBRS estimates for serious domestic violence. counciloncj.org/toward-a-bette…

Many major #crime rates are declining but why does the public believe the opposite is true? Howard Henderson Texas Southern University and Ernesto Lopez Council on Criminal Justice chat with me for Undark Magazine undark.org/2024/10/28/ups…

Deep dive on the rise and fall of the homicide spike with ⁦@Crimealytics⁩ ⁦Ernesto Lopez⁩ Council on Criminal Justice⁩ ⁦John Roman⁩ ⁦NORC⁩ nytimes.com/2024/11/02/ups…

Today is officially #GivingTuesday! We have accomplished a lot together in our first five years, but we are just getting started. Will you support the Council on Criminal Justice this Giving Tuesday? Donate now at: secure.counciloncj.org/forms/25

The report, by CCJ’s Ernesto Lopez., also found that from 2018-2022, most carjackings (56% in 2018, 62% in 2022) involved a firearm and about a quarter resulted in victim injury, including death.

CCJ's Ernesto Lopez spoke to Amanda Watford of Stateline || bsky @stateline.org about the importance of good shoplifting data, noting that more accurate information translates to better policy and better use of law enforcement resources: stateline.org/2024/12/19/new…

OUT TODAY: CCJ’s year-end 2024 crime trends report finds that homicide and most other violent crimes have fallen below pre-pandemic levels in a sample of U.S. cities. Explore the full analysis from co-authors Ernesto Lopez and Bobby Boxerman, PhD: counciloncj.org/crime-trends-i…