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• Crime and Incarceration, the Midyear/Preliminary Reports

  It's that time, when preliminary/midyear data are released by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics regarding crime rates and incarceration for 2007. In its preliminary crime rate report , the FBI finds: " Preliminary figures indicate... Posted Jun 10 2008, 08:32 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Incarceration rates, Statistics, Crime rates

• State Sentencing and Corrections Legislation

  The National Conference of State Legislatures has published a report that examines state legislative actions during 2007, the elements that drove these actions, and the potential impact of sentencing and corrections in the near term. Principal legislative... Posted Mar 26 2008, 02:17 PM by CC Pro with Filed under: Incarceration rates, Sentencing, Corrections Reform, Public administration, Legislation, Corrections Costs

• Examining the Incarceration Policy/Funding Bind

  The Pew Center on the States has released a new report examining how states are coping with burgeoning prison populations and whether public safety is effectively being purchased with high incarceration costs. In One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008... Posted Feb 28 2008, 10:56 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Incarceration rates, Corrections Reform, Corrections Costs

• Staggering Costs in the Next Five Years?

  The much-awaited Pew report is out. Public Safety, Public Spending : Forecasting America's Prison Population 2007-2011 predicts a 13 percent jump in state and federal prison populations in the next five years. The report examines national and state... Posted Feb 14 2007, 08:50 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Incarceration rates, Corrections Reform

• Imprisonment Rates Around the World, Also Youth Crime Attitudes

  A new edition of the World Prison Population List is now available. Produced by Roy Walmsley of King's College London International Centre for Prison Studies, the list makes a best attempt to draw together statistics from countries around the world... Posted Feb 07 2007, 09:49 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Incarceration rates, International, Public Opinion, Youthful Offenders

• Research Meets Pragmatism: A Policymakers' Guide to Reconsidering Incarceration

  With the FBI reporting violent crime on the rise nationwide, the Vera Institute of Justice has just issued a timely report tackling the thorny issue of the effectiveness of increased incarceration as a strategy for combating crime. Reconsidering Incarceration... Posted Jan 31 2007, 12:12 PM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: What works, Incarceration rates

• Global Perspective on US Incarceration Rates

  "The US has less than 5% of the world's population but over 23% of the world's incarcerated people." In a new Fact Sheet , the National Council on Crime and Delinquency compares United States incarceration rates with those of other countries... Posted Nov 16 2006, 09:43 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Incarceration rates, International