Crime rate

“Beginning in the late 1990’s, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Information Center began scanning social, economic and corrections issue

This infographic is an excellent visual representation of the relationship between crime and incarceration.

"Although the pace of criminal justice reform has accelerated at both the federal and state levels in the past decade, current initiatives have had

This is an excellent infographic showing how reductions in incarceration lead to decreases in crime.

This report "examines one of the nation’s least understood recent phenomena - the dramatic decline in crime nationwide over the past two decades -

"Nearly 40 percent of the U.S.