Crime Mapping

Though it has been around for thousands of years, it wasn’t until the 20th century that marijuana was first criminalized. The United States didn’t declare the use of this substance illegal until the 1930s with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. In the US, the ’60s and ’70s saw an epidemic of marijuana use, which [...]

A long history of high crime rates in the United States led to the enactment of a number of versions of the three strikes law in various states. It all began with Washington’s Initiative 593, which was passed in 1993, establishing that criminals convicted of felonies or, as it stated, “more serious offenses,” for the [...]