Pew report: The high cost, low return of longer prison terms
2012 Pew Center on the States report on incarceration rates in the United States, strategies and costs they impose, from 1990 to 2009.
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Juvenile arrest and collateral educational damage in the transition to adulthood
2012 study from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University on the impact of an arrest on a teen’s educational trajectory.
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U.S. incarceration and correctional population levels: U.S. Justice Department
2011 reports from the U.S. Department of Justice with census of imprisoned and paroled persons.
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Department of Justice: Capital punishment, 2010 statistical tables
2011 report on prisoner demographics, manner of execution, pardons or sentence commutations and capital punishment trends over time.
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Myths and realities of correctional severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program
2011 study from Fordham Law School on the influences fueling prison population growth in the United States since 1980.
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Length of incarceration and subsequent labor market outcomes
2011 study followed the employment opportunities of 29,560 paroled inmates who had served between 3 months and 4 years in prison for a range of crimes.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 report on criminal alien statistics
2011 GAO report on criminal activity by undocumented immigrants, their nationality and the estimated costs of such criminality to the United States.
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Raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction in North Carolina
2011 study by the Vera Institute of Justice on the potential benefits of treating criminals under 18 as juveniles and not as adults.
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Disparities faced by boys and men of color in California
2009 RAND Corporation study on the disparities between Latino and African-American males and their white counterparts in California.
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Mental health treatment and criminal justice outcomes
2010 paper by the Harvard Medical School examining whether treating children and adults with mental health illnesses could reduce crime.
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