Since the mid 1990s, the general revenue funds appropriated for the Department of Corrections has more than tripled, from about $217 million (1994) to about $670 million in 2009. The ripple effects of crime are far reaching: loss of productivity for crime victims and their families, court fees, jail and prison expenses, personal and property damages, and the challenges faced by the children of the incarcerated. All of these carry a hefty monetary and societal price
When the juvenile penal system is supposed to be focused on rehabilitation, how does committing crim...
Thirty-three U.S. states and jurisdictions spend $100,000 or more annually to incarcerate a young pe...
Reports a follow-up study of 227 youth excluded from school and transferred into School Exclusion Un...
For the past few decades, the United States has had one the highest incarceration rates in the world...
This article evaluates the cost and crime-reducing potential of prisons and social spending, setting...
From 1980 to 1993, the number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 200%. Throughout this exp...
This paper measures the impact that changes in expenditures on public education in the Unites States...
As state and local governments have devoted a rising share of their resources to crime-related progr...
California’s juvenile crime rate is high. Juveniles commit one-in-six violent crimes and over one-qu...
Many and probably most persons sentenced to prison are not good candidates for alternative sentences...
professional paper in fulfillment of the Masters of Public Policy degreeA significant source of the ...
Much of current research on crime and education has focused on the effect of minimum dropout age on ...
This is a longitudinal study on the effect of LA’s BEST on educational attainment and juvenile crime...
A growing consensus suggests that incarcerating offenders tends to have either null or criminogenic ...
abstract: Over the last fifty years, education funding has been litigated and debated in the United ...
When the juvenile penal system is supposed to be focused on rehabilitation, how does committing crim...
Thirty-three U.S. states and jurisdictions spend $100,000 or more annually to incarcerate a young pe...
Reports a follow-up study of 227 youth excluded from school and transferred into School Exclusion Un...
For the past few decades, the United States has had one the highest incarceration rates in the world...
This article evaluates the cost and crime-reducing potential of prisons and social spending, setting...
From 1980 to 1993, the number of inmates in state and federal prisons rose 200%. Throughout this exp...
This paper measures the impact that changes in expenditures on public education in the Unites States...
As state and local governments have devoted a rising share of their resources to crime-related progr...
California’s juvenile crime rate is high. Juveniles commit one-in-six violent crimes and over one-qu...
Many and probably most persons sentenced to prison are not good candidates for alternative sentences...
professional paper in fulfillment of the Masters of Public Policy degreeA significant source of the ...
Much of current research on crime and education has focused on the effect of minimum dropout age on ...
This is a longitudinal study on the effect of LA’s BEST on educational attainment and juvenile crime...
A growing consensus suggests that incarcerating offenders tends to have either null or criminogenic ...
abstract: Over the last fifty years, education funding has been litigated and debated in the United ...
When the juvenile penal system is supposed to be focused on rehabilitation, how does committing crim...
Thirty-three U.S. states and jurisdictions spend $100,000 or more annually to incarcerate a young pe...
Reports a follow-up study of 227 youth excluded from school and transferred into School Exclusion Un...