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The Politics of Prison Expansion
The Politics of Prison Expansion
Author: Joseph Dillon Davey
Prison building creates profits and gets "law and order" candidates elected, often with political contributions that came from those profits. But, Professor Davey argues, crime rates rise and fall approximately the same way in all fifty states regardless of whether they invest in expensive imprisonment programs. A cost-benefit analysis of recent...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780275962098
ISBN-10: 0275962091
Publication Date: 7/30/1998
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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