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A committee of the National Research Council examined the best available evidence and found no clear evidence that greater reliance on imprisonment achieved its intended goal of substantially reducing crime. Moreover, the rise in incarceration may have had a wide range of unwanted consequences for society, communities, families, and individuals. The committee’s report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, urges policymakers to reduce the nation’s reliance on incarceration and seek crime-control strategies that are more effective, with fewer unwanted consequences.
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The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences
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After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more than quadrupled during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held...
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Download and read the full report here: www.nap.edu/catalog/18613/the-growth-of-incarceration-in-the-united-states-exploring-causes
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
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Read the full report: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18613/the-growth-of-incarceration-in-the-united-states-exploring-causes
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