California voters to consider reforms to law blamed for rise in thefts
California voters to consider reforms to law blamed for rise in thefts
- June 12, 2024
- Charis Kubrin, criminology, law, and society and CPIP, KTLA, June 12, 2024
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California voters will get their chance to reform a controversial law that critics blame for a surge in retail thefts and brazen flash mob robberies. … “We have to dispense with this simplistic narrative that reforms are what caused the crime and the crime is what causes all of the retail problems that the retail establishments are reporting,” Charis Kubrin, a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine told the Sacramento Bee in November.
For the full story, please visit https://ktla.com/news/local-news/initiative-to-change-californias-controversial-prop-47-eligible-for-november-ballot/.
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