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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 … in violence, self-harm, and suicides following the law. Collectively, the findings suggest unwarranted responses to …
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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 reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …
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policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …
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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 … population, assuming some heterogeneity in inmates' baseline propensities toward violence. Failure to account for this can bias …
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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 reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …
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Many states have laws permitting the civil incarceration of violent sexual offenders after they have served their sentence. These laws must balance two strong interests: those of society in preventing the offender from committing further violent sexual offences, and those of the individual whose...
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An end to sexual violence requires bodily autonomy, sexual self-determination, redistribution of wealth and power, and … within areas of law that purport to prohibit sexual violence in or through prisons. This article examines these tensions … ways — sometimes while using the rhetoric of ending sexual violence. In particular, the article focuses on searches …
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