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1 results foundAuthor: Teji, Selena Title: Ignoring the Evidence: The Role of the California District Attorneys Association in California's Prison Crisis Summary: The California District Attorneys Association (CDAA) was incorporated in 1974 to "serve the needs and promote the interests of California prosecutors" (CDAA, 2011). The association accomplishes this mission by operating over 30 special interest committees that draft and analyze legislation and a full-time staff member headquartered in Sacramento to lobby on measures related to "public safety, environmental and consumer protection" (CDAA, 2011). CDAA's membership of over 2,500 includes a seventeen-person Board of Directors that consists of District Attorney and Deputy District Attorney members. This Board conducts the majority of CDAA's decision-making business and is largely elected through annual District Attorney voting (CDAA, 2011c). As a statewide organization, CDAA represents the interests of District Attorneys across California's 58 counties, many of which consist of small rural communities. As a result CDAA's agenda leans towards a conservatism that is more prevalent in these rural areas, despite the fact that those counties are home to a minority of the state's population. Unlike some other states, California does not have a separate district attorney's association to represent the state's urban jurisdictions and the unique public safety issues more common in urban environments. This publication reviews the history of CDAA's legislative advocacy and analyses the underlying agenda behind CDAA's criminal justice policy recommendations. It demonstrates that CDAA-recommended legislation and lobbying efforts are primarily designed to pursue sentencing and incarceration policies that grant increased incarceration power to prosecutors in the courtroom. These policies often contradict independent research and national consensus and circumvent the procedural safeguards provided in the justice system, contributing to California's current prison crisis. Details: San Francisco, California: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 2011. 8p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 11, 2019 at: http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/documents/CDAA_ignoring_the_evidence.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.cjcj.org/news/5428 Shelf Number: 156954 Keywords: California District Attorney Mass Incarceration Prison Crisis |