Prisons Do Not Reduce Recidivism: The High Cost of Ignoring Science

One of the major justifications for the rise of mass incarceration in the United States is that placing offenders behind bars reduces recidivism by teaching them that “crime does not pay.” This rationale is based on the view that custodial sanctions are uniquely painful and thus exact a higher cost...

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Published in:The Prison journal (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pa.), 2011-09, Vol.91 (3_suppl), p.48S-65S
Main Authors: Cullen, Francis T., Jonson, Cheryl Lero, Nagin, Daniel S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Correctional treatment programs
Crime
Crime prevention
Criminal justice
Criminologists
Criminology
Imprisonment
Incapacitation
Offenders
Prisons
Recidivism
Sanctions
Teaching
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