According to U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics, American prisons currently house more than 2.2 million individuals, a population roughly the size of Houston, Texas. This incarceration rate is staggeringly high—no other ...
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Apr 12, 2017
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There are approximately four million people on probation or parole at any given time in the United States, nearly double the number of people incarcerated in the nation's jails and prisons. Yet, despite the fact that community ...
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Dec 8, 2016
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Overflowing prison populations and high rates of violent crime once made New York City a metaphor for the urban decay confronting America's cities. But over the last two decades crime in the nation's largest city has declined ...
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Oct 31, 2016
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As incarceration rates have increased in the United States, so has the likelihood that children will endure the imprisonment of a parent—especially among the most disadvantaged populations. But how does the imprisonment ...
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Jun 14, 2016
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There's a stark and troubling way that incarceration diminishes the ability of a former inmate to empathize with a loved one behind bars, but existing sociological theories fail to capture it, Vanderbilt University sociologists ...
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Jun 2, 2016
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A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups.
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Mar 31, 2016
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The chances of incarceration in America are always higher for blacks than for whites or Hispanics, regardless of their level of wealth, according to a new study led by Khaing Zaw of Duke University in the U.S. In addition, ...
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Mar 10, 2016
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New research from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy found that states with a large minority population tend to incarcerate more people.
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Oct 14, 2014
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While proud classmates bring parents to school for Career Day, kids with imprisoned dads incur a double whammy: They are significantly more likely to be held back to repeat a grade, a Cornell and University of California, ...
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Sep 19, 2014
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(Phys.org)—For high school students with emotional and behavioral problems, the stakes couldn't be much higher: With dropout rates higher than 50 percent, members of this group who leave school before graduation often endure ...
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Dec 5, 2012
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