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Crime Rates and Youth Incarceration in Texas and California Compared: Public Safety or Public Waste?
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Crime Rates and Youth Incarceration in Texas and California Compared: Public Safety or Public Waste?
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Apr. 08, 2008
ANNOTATION: The question of whether higher incarceration rates for juveniles reduce crime is examined by comparing the juvenile justice systems of Texas to California. This paper's sections are imprisonment trends, effects on crime, and conclusion. This comparison shows that Texas' application of incapacitation theory -- significantly higher rates of incarceration result in decreases in crime rate -- to juvenile offenders has the identical impact on crime rates as California's reduction in juvenile incarceration (75%) while resulting in increased costs.