Add to ORKGThe U.S. prison and jail population has grown fivefold in the 40 years since the early 1970s. The aggregate consequences of the growth in the penal system are widely claimed but have not been closely studied. We survey evidence for the aggregate relationship among the incarceration rate, employment rates, single-parenthood, public opinion, and crime. Employment among very low-skilled men has declined with rising incarceration. Punitive sentiment in public opinion has also softened as imprisonment increased. Single-parenthood and crime rates, however, are not system-atically related to incarceration. We conclude with a discussion of the conceptual and empirical challenges that come with assessing the aggregate effects of mass incarceration o...
Much has been written on the causes and negative consequences of arrest and incarceration on the emp...
The United States currently incarcerates its residents at a rate that is greater than every other co...
In the early 1990s, with violent crime at record levels and public alarm growing, federal and state ...
The U.S. prison and jail population has grown fivefold in the 40 years since the early 1970s. The ag...
The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically in the US since 1980. We explore the implicatio...
During the last decades, societies have largely used incarceration as a central crime control tool. ...
This paper studies the mechanical theory of crime and incarceration-the notion that changes in impri...
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men’s prison admission rates in the United...
This paper studies the mechanical theory of crime and incarceration-the notion that changes in impri...
The United States prison population has grown seven-fold over the past 35 years. This dissertation l...
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the Unite...
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States experienced an exponential growth in its prison population...
The American imprisonment rate has soared from approximately 100 per 100,000 individuals in the mid-...
iii In the early 1970s, the state and federal prison population was under 200,000, with incarceratio...
American incarceration numbers increased fivefold between 1973 and 1997. Changes in penal policies a...
Much has been written on the causes and negative consequences of arrest and incarceration on the emp...
The United States currently incarcerates its residents at a rate that is greater than every other co...
In the early 1990s, with violent crime at record levels and public alarm growing, federal and state ...
The U.S. prison and jail population has grown fivefold in the 40 years since the early 1970s. The ag...
The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically in the US since 1980. We explore the implicatio...
During the last decades, societies have largely used incarceration as a central crime control tool. ...
This paper studies the mechanical theory of crime and incarceration-the notion that changes in impri...
This paper studies the effects of wages and employment on men’s prison admission rates in the United...
This paper studies the mechanical theory of crime and incarceration-the notion that changes in impri...
The United States prison population has grown seven-fold over the past 35 years. This dissertation l...
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the Unite...
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States experienced an exponential growth in its prison population...
The American imprisonment rate has soared from approximately 100 per 100,000 individuals in the mid-...
iii In the early 1970s, the state and federal prison population was under 200,000, with incarceratio...
American incarceration numbers increased fivefold between 1973 and 1997. Changes in penal policies a...
Much has been written on the causes and negative consequences of arrest and incarceration on the emp...
The United States currently incarcerates its residents at a rate that is greater than every other co...
In the early 1990s, with violent crime at record levels and public alarm growing, federal and state ...