. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new … series are made available in full, to allow other researchers to explore the consequences and causes of incarceration. …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the Australian incarceration rate has risen by 130 percent, and now stands at 0.22 percent of …

. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new … series are made available in full, to allow other researchers to explore the consequences and causes of incarceration. …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the Australian incarceration rate has risen by 130 percent, and now stands at 0.22 percent of …

significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader … understanding of how peer effects shape criminal behavior among prison inmates, focusing on co-inmate impacts on recidivism and … criminal network formation. Using Norwegian register data on over 140,000 prison spells, we causally identify peer effects …

. Longer prison sentences further isolate offenders from the legitimate labor force and may promote the formation of criminal … networks in prison. On the other hand, greater initial punishment may have a deterrence effect on the individual being punished …, sometimes called “specific deterrence,” through learning or the rehabilitative effect of prison. We test the effect of prison …

gap.” Second, those who do obtain expungement have extremely low subsequent crime rates, comparing favorably to the …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … correlates with inmates’ offenses against in-prison regulation. Altogether, these findings suggest that criminal identity plays a …

unexpected failure of a ballot initiative to expand the county jail. Using administrative data and local polynomial regression …