The Crime Scene - Oliver Roeder and Lauren-Brooke Eisen - POLITICO Magazine
Now, new research, published by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, shows that increasing incarceration has only a limited effect on crime. Examining changes in crime and state imprisonment rates from 2000 to 2013, our study found that many states, including some of the biggest, actually saw crime drop as their prison rates fell, too—as the graph below shows. Some state-level test cases are also noted below.
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