Incarceration
Examining the Role of Familial Support During Prison and After Release on Post-Incarceration Mental Health
Crime and Punishment Reconsidered - Some Comments on Blumstein's Stability of Punishment Hypothesis
Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Incarceration Work Camp Program Statement Final Report
Wardens' Views on the Wisdom of Supermax Prisons
Risk Perceptions Among Serious Offenders: The Role of Crime and Punishment
Why the Drop in Crime?
Opportunities and Challenges Abound as Prison Populations Decrease
Prisons as Self-Regulating Systems - A Comparison of Historical Patterns in California for Male and Female Offenders
Decision To Incarcerate in Juvenile and Criminal Courts
Crime and Incarceration: Some Comparative Findings From the 1980s
Displaced Discretion Under Ohio Sentencing Guidelines
Estimating the Impact of Incarceration on Subsequent Offending Trajectories: Deterrent, Criminogenic, or Null Effect?
Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: The Role of Science in Addressing the Effects of Incarceration on Family Life
Understanding Families Impacted by Incarceration: Use of a Unique Data Source (Research Note)
Consequences of Incarceration for Gang Membership: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Offenders in Philadelphia and Phoenix
Reentry Discussion: Overcoming Challenges When Leaving Incarceration
State Responses to Mass Incarceration
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to mass incarceration, specifically its magnitude, costs, and collateral consequences. In the face of economic constraints, strategies to reduce correctional populations while maintaining public safety are becoming a fiscal necessity. This panel will present strategies that states have undertaken to reduce incarceration rates while balancing taxpayer costs with ensuring public safety.
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NIJ Journal Issue No. 242
Less Prison, More Police, Less Crime: How Criminology Can Save the States from Bankruptcy
Professor Lawrence Sherman explains how policing can prevent far more crimes than prison per dollar spent. His analysis of the cost-effectiveness of prison compared to policing suggests that states can cut their total budgets for justice and reduce crime by reallocating their spending on crime: less prison, more police.
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Going Home (or Not): How Residential Change Might Help the Formerly Incarcerated Stay Out of Prison
Dr. Kirk discusses how Hurricane Katrina affected those formerly incarcerated persons originally from New Orleans and their likelihood of returning to prison. Kirk also discussed potential strategies for fostering residential change among those who were incarcerated, focusing specifically on parole residency policies and the provision of public housing vouchers.
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Benefit-Cost Analysis for Crime Policy
How do we decide how to allocate criminal justice resources in a way that minimizes the social harms from both crime and policy efforts to control crime? How, for that matter, do we decide how much to spend on the criminal justice system and crime control generally, versus other pressing needs? These questions are at the heart of benefit-cost analysis.
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Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders
The panel presentations from the 2009 NIJ Conference are based on an NIJ-sponsored evaluation of the effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123, which mandates community-based drug abuse treatment for drug possession by nonviolent offenders in lieu of prison.
Discussing the Future of Justice-Involved Young Adults
New science in brain development is transforming young adult involvement with the justice system. On Tuesday, September 8, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason, and experts from NIJ and the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice who serve on the Executive Session on Community Corrections discussed the future of justice-involved young adults.
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