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Mar 25, 2023 · Examines Incarceration in the U.S. - The New York Times. Prisoners Today, Neighbors Tomorrow. A new book “What’s Prison For?” explains how American prisons can better educate and rehabilitate the...
Feb 8, 2023 · Policy Brief. Ending 50 Years of Mass Incarceration: Urgent Reform Needed to Protect Future Generations. By Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D. February 8, 2023. Fifty years since the onset of mass incarceration, and despite recent downsizing of most state prison populations, the pace of decarceration is insufficient to undo the decades of unrelenting growth.
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- The Norwegian Setting
- Recidivism, Employment, and Job Training
- Family and Criminal Network Spillovers
- Feasibility of Reform
Our work studies the effects of incarceration in Norway, a setting with two key advantages. First, we are able to link several administrative data sources to construct a panel dataset containing complete records of the criminal behavior and labor market outcomes of every Norwegian who has been incarcerated. We can further link this information to o...
Our research on the effects of incarceration on the offender, using the random assignment of judges as an instrument, yields three key findings.3First, imprisonment discourages further criminal behavior. We find that incarceration lowers the probability that an individual will reoffend within five years by 27 percentage points and reduces the corre...
While understanding the effects of incarceration on the offender is an important first step, capturing spillover effects is also important for evaluating criminal justice policy and designing effective prison systems. Children in particular could be affected either positively or negatively by having a parent incarcerated, a matter we explore.4 How ...
Our research on Norway’s criminal justice system serves as a proof of concept that time spent in prison with a focus on rehabilitation can result in positive outcomes. The Norwegian prison system increases job training, raises employment, and reduces crime, mostly due to changes for individuals who were not employed prior to imprisonment. While the...
Mar 24, 2020 · Focusing on rehabilitation—by expanding pre-existing programs—will make the US prison system more effective by ensuring that former inmates are not forced back into criminal activities. The War on Drugs: A History of Ignoring Rehabilitation.
Apr 1, 2020 · by Kevin Bliss. Ex-felons are gaining more opportunities to rebuild their lives after release without having the stigma of incarceration hanging over their heads. With such measures as Ban the Box, Second Chance Employment, and self-startups, people with criminal convictions are getting a leg up on employment, a major factor in recidivism ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced jails and prisons to release thousands in an attempt to limit the devastating impact of viral spread in incarceration’s close living quarters. 8 The need to...
Mar 21, 2024 · The U.S. has seen a steady decline in the federal and state prison population over the last eleven years, with a 2019 population of about 1.4 million men and women incarcerated at year-end, hitting...