The January 27 Washington Post featured a 3-part series on aging. (Free registration is required to view the WP articles.)

In No Country for Old People? Marc Freedman discusses “encore careers” for baby boomers. Freedman has also written a book, Encore: Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life.

In The New Alone, Elizabeth Marquardt discusses how family configurations (divorce, remarriage, “re-divorce”, single-parent childbearing) affect care in old age. Also see Divorce Foretells Child’s Future Care For Elderly Parent (a news story about Adam Davey’s work) and Marquardt’s book about her work with sociologist Norval Glenn, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.

In A Hidden Crime, Marie Therese-Connelly sheds light on elder abuse and our lengthening life spans.

New from the Bureau of Justice Statistics: Criminal Victimization, 2006 “presents estimates of rates and levels of personal and property victimization for 2006.” Estimates are drawn from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

The US prison population continued to grow in 2006, increasing 2.8% over the 2005 population, according to statistics released by the US Department of Justice (New York Times). The statistics are included in the report Prisoners in 2006.

Race, Ethnicity, and the Criminal Justice System (PDF) is a new research brief from the American Sociological Association’s series on institutional aspects of race, racism, and ace relations.

The first days and weeks after prison release are crucial for the prevention of recidivism and authorities should intensify services for prisoners immediately before and after release, according to a new report from the National Research Council (Parole, Desistance from Crime, and Community Integration).

Crime and the Nation’s Households, 2005, presents data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) on households that experienced a violent or property crime. The report, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, found that households in the West were more likely to experience one or more crimes compared to households in other parts of the country.

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) has annouced the release of wave 3 (2000-2002) of their data. Click here for more information on PHDCN.

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that former inmates were much more likely than the general public to die during their first two weeks out of prison. Experts say released prisoners need more support to prevent recidivism and health risks. (AP via Centre Daily Times)

This BJS report presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 2005, and of persons executed in 2005.

This NCES report presents national-level information about crime and safety in U.S. public schools as reported by school principals, including the frequency of criminal incidents at school, the use of disciplinary actions, and efforts to prevent and reduce crime at school. Data come from the 2003–04 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2004).