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Prison Time vs. Crime Rate Study

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News January, 1997, page 6
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.
According to a study in August 1995, by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, putting more people in state prisons has had little effect on California's crime rate. In only two categories of criminal activity analyzed in the study -- robbery and larceny -- did the crime rate ...

 

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