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  • 015836

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  • Published 1999?.
  • 6 pages.

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Crime Control and Common Sense Assumptions Underlying the Expansion of the Prison Population

Publication year: 1999 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The rate of incarceration in U.S. prisons has greatly increased during the past 25 years. Sentencing reform that stipulated increased penalties for specific crimes has had a great influence upon rising prison populations. Tougher sentencing has had the following effects: a 200% increase in violent offender incarceration with a 9% reduction in violent offenses; a $1.5 billion a year cost to incarcerate drug offenders with no reduction in drug crimes; and a greater racial disparity manifest in the use of mandatory sentencing.
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