archival and government sources, I find that Rosenwald schools affected juvenile crime and all categories of adult crime. I … argue that most of the reduction in incarceration comes from increased opportunity costs of crime through higher educational …

prison growth in recent decades, and this trend is evident among arrested offenders in every major crime category. Changes in …

two signature state incarceration policies adopted during the "tough on crime" era of the 1990s--three strikes and truth …, namely gradually reductions in community incarceration and crime rates. Altogether, these findings point to the need to …

analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the leading scholarly commentaries on the crime drop during the 1990s have … sort have the potential to both reduce crime rates and reduce arrests and imprisonment. Well-designed regulations and …One creative method to harness private action to cost-effective crime control is the creation of business improvement …

-effective way to reduce crime and lower criminal justice costs? This paper reviews and evaluates the evidence assessing the … potential of expansion of mental health services for reducing crime. Mental illness and symptoms of mental illness are highly … augment the empirical research base relating mental illness to crime. In a recent community sample of adults, we find higher …