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Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely … NPS. The analysis exploits cross-prison variation in the initial size of the drug market and shows high-intensity NPS …
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This chapter focuses on the violence of incarceration for Indigenous people in Australia. The chapter uses a broad … relationship between the violence of incarceration and Indigenous dispossession from land and denial of sovereignty …
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.S. prison population as one of the primary goals. The first objective of this research is to estimate the causal relationship … between prison crowdedness and prison violence that is essential to understanding the impacts of having severely overcrowded … prisons as well as efforts to reduce such crowding. I exploit exogenous variation in California prison populations, resulting …
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Many states have laws permitting the civil incarceration of violent sexual offenders after they have served their … another offence. This article reviews the purposes of civil incarceration, and the criteria used in state law permitting it …
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Correctional facilities commonly lack climate control, producing a setting absent endogenous responses to hot weather like avoidance, adjustment, and mitigation. We study daily weather variation across the state of Mississippi, and show that high temperatures increase intense violence among the...
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Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest abusers when a domestic violence incident is...
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During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was carried out in 1981. This paper re-examines the data...
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