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What are societal costs associated with mass incarceration. The cost of imprisonment including who benefits and who pays is a major part of the national discussion around criminal justice policy. Books about criminal justice, curated by the marshall project staff. In a recent article on the impact of mass incarceration on poverty rates in the united states between 1980 and 2004, robert defina and lance hannon 20, 581 argue that had mass incarceration not occurred, poverty would have decreased by. In 2018 in the us, there were 698 people incarcerated per 100,000, this includes the incarceration rate for adults or people tried as adults. Incarceration is a widely argued topic with many understood viewpoints, and it directly deals with three main important correctional topics which are deterrence, rehabilitation, and recidivism. Everything you think you know about mass incarceration is. The united states has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest percapita incarceration rate. Economics of incarceration prison policy initiative.
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