prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education … makers have emphasised the importance of rehabilitating prisoners as a way of reducing recidivism. Consequently, the … management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and …

prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education … makers have emphasised the importance of rehabilitating prisoners as a way of reducing recidivism. Consequently, the … management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and …

-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 …

This research evaluates the impact of electronic monitoring as an alternative to prison on reoffending. Leveraging … monitoring reduces reoffending within 24 months by 16 percentage points compared to serving a prison sentence. For offenders who … offender who serves their sentence under electronic monitoring rather than in prison. …

between incarceration and employment rates for former female state prisoners from Illinois. Our analysis indicates that … although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women's post-prison employment …

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions … on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the … extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate's stay and …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … of an impact of the further stiffening of sentences during the 1990s, a period when prison and other correctional …

adults (221 prisoners per 100,000 adults). Recalculating Indigenous incarceration rates so that they are comparable over a … Indigenous adults are incarcerated (2481 prisoners per 100,000 adults), a higher share than among African-Americans. The recent … increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …