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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:
Feb. 01, 2010
ANNOTATION: The question of whether higher incarceration rates reduce crime is investigated by comparing juvenile imprisonment in Texas and California. Imprisonment trends—Texas has an incarceration rate 2.6 times higher than California and their effects on crime are analyzed and described. Results show that “Texas’s current youth incarceration policy [increased imprisonment for younger offenders for less serious crimes] is unjustified and unnecessary” and if changed can save money while maintaining public safety (p.5).