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On average, these counties spent more than $20 million incarcerating people in 2019. (See Figure 1 on page 1.) In this moment of economic crisis, counties must cut jail spending and reinvest those savings in communities most impacted by mass incarceration.
In January 2020, New York State implemented landmark bail reforms, eliminating bail and pretrial detention in nearly all misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases, while preserving bail for almost all violent felonies—including gun possession, shootings, sex crimes, and murder.
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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...
If all criminals were recidivists, total rehabilitation would reduce the crime rate to zero. But recidivists start as first offenders. Even some of the worst crimes, such as murder, may be committed by first offend-ers.6 Since rehabilitation can affect criminals only after their first con-viction, even total rehabilitation could reduce neither ...
- Ernest Van Den Haag
- 1982
Mar 22, 2022 · Those concerns, among others, drove three rounds of revisions to the bill between 2020 and 2023. Here, we review what we know so far about bail reform and its impact on public safety. Critically, there is no evidence that bail reform drove recent increases in violence.
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.
Sep 14, 2022 · Since research finds no evidence that community supervision prevents crime—and can in fact undermine stability and opportunity and function as a recidivism trap—the primary recommendation is to abandon the supervision, control, and reincarceration functions of probation and parole.