She was arrested outside S.F.’s Mid-Market Whole Foods a week before it closed. Here’s what happened next.
She was arrested outside S.F.’s Mid-Market Whole Foods a week before it closed. Here’s what happened next.
- August 14, 2023
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and criminology, law & society, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 14, 2023
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Charis Kubrin, a criminology professor at UC Irvine, said she was “sympathetic” to the district attorney’s challenges but believes the impact of Prop. 47 on retail crime has been overstated. Kubrin co-authored a 2018 study of Prop. 47 that suggested the measure had no effect on robbery or other violent crime trends statewide in the years after it was passed, though larceny and motor vehicle thefts increased moderately.
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