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Does Less Punishment Mean Less Crime?

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011 published in Prison Legal News November, 2011, page 44
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Sentencing. Locations: New York, United States of America.
The fiscal crisis facing virtually all state governments has brought to the forefront of public debate the following question: When do longer prison sentences and harsher punishment become counter-productive? Has the clock finally run out after four decades during which politicians at all levels of government built their careers by ...

 

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