Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 08:31
in Psychology & Sociology
The U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more repeat offenders, a new study suggests. Using data from Minnesota, an Ohio State University sociologist found that the U.S. criminal justice system felt the reverberations from the increase in violent crime and […]