The Relationship Between Mass Incarceration and Crime in the Neoliberal Period in the United States
The United States prison population has grown seven-fold over the past 35 years. This dissertation looks at the impact this growth in incarceration has on crime rates and seeks to understand why this drastic change in public policy happened. Simultaneity between prison populations and crime rates ma...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/636 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1637&context=open_access_dissertations |