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seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate … NPS. The analysis exploits cross-prison variation in the initial size of the drug market and shows high-intensity NPS …
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between prison crowdedness and prison violence that is essential to understanding the impacts of having severely overcrowded … practitioners that there is a positive causal relationship between prison crowding and violence. A simple reduced form model is ….S. prison population as one of the primary goals. The first objective of this research is to estimate the causal relationship …
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This chapter focuses on the violence of incarceration for Indigenous people in Australia. The chapter uses a broad … concept of violence that includes overt physical violence, ill-treatment, and the failure to exercise a reasonable duty of … relationship between the violence of incarceration and Indigenous dispossession from land and denial of sovereignty …
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.S. natives to commit crimes and that they pose a threat to public safety. There is little evidence to support these claims. In …
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Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically,...
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We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … cheating correlates with inmates' offenses against in-prison regulation. Together, these findings suggest that criminal …
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Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
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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. …
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Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These series are constructed as a share of adults rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175815
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177061