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 …

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 …

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 …

.S. natives to commit crimes and that they pose a threat to public safety. There is little evidence to support these claims. In …

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 …

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. …