The "Black Lives Matter" movement, with its focus on issues of police brutality, was the dominant criminal justice news story of 2015, according to a reader survey conducted by John Jay College's Center on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ). Results of the survey were published Dec. 9 in The Crime Report, an online publication of the CMCJ. Readers identified the Top 10 justice-related stories of the year, covering such themes as domestic terrorism, the death penalty, sentencing reform and mass shootings, among others.

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