. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …

Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past … appear to be the main drivers of Australia's growing prison population. …

county jail populations, a moderate decline in the state prison population, a decrease in arrests for property and drug …We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the …-level crime rates that exploit heterogeneity in the effects of the proposition on local criminal justice practices. We find little …

-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … assessment of whether the crime declines can be attributed to the massive expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system. We argue … that the crime is certainly lower as results of this expansion and the crime rate in the early 1990s was likely a third …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a …. Exploring factors that may explain the preventive effect of incarceration, we find the decline in crime is driven by individuals …Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven …

Employing nonparametric bounds, we examine the effect of military service on incarceration outcomes using the Vietnam … not strong statistical evidence that the direct effect of the draft increases the incarceration rate for violent offenses … for a particular cohort of draft avoiders, and (ii) military service increases the incarceration rate for violent and …

data from male rural-urban migrants - prison inmates and comparable non-inmates - to examine whether parental absence in …

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data … and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing channels, I find that work in unskilled prison jobs impacts convicts on … the reincarceration rate, within three years of release, of convicts on terms longer than six months – because prison work …

We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration … approximate 20 percent decline in total property crime arrests, and shifts in the composition of arrests away from felonies … offenses), inter-racial disparities in jail booking rates narrow by nearly half. Finally, we use data from the American …