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Right-Sizing Justice: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Imprisonment in Three States
Publication year:
1999
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The median social costs per year per male offender for New York, New Mexico, and Arizona were, respectively, $31,866, $26,486, $25,472. Using these figures the authors arrived at the following conclusions: further prison expansion will experience less cost-effectiveness due to diminishing returns; the imprisonment of drug-only offenders is not cost-effective; and community costs associated with increased incarceration will also increase.