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Pew publication on incarceration's impact on crime

By Douglas A. Berman

I just received this news of the latest publication from the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, titled ?The Impact of Incarceration on Crime: Two National Experts Weigh In.?  The short document can be accessed at this link, and here is Pew's description of the document: This Question & Answer brief features Dr. Alfred Blumstein and Dr. James Q. Wilson, two of the nation?s most respected experts on incarceration and crime.  Professors Blumstein and Wilson spoke recently with the Public Safety Performance Project, an initiative of the Pew Center on the States (PCS), about the degree to which increased incarceration deserves credit for the drop in crime across the nation, the likely outcomes of continued prison expansion, and some policies and programs that offer better public safety results for taxpayer dollars.continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).