Prison Fellowship Newsroom - Press Kit (Diminishing Returns crime and incarceration in the 1990s, The Sentencing Project,Sept. 2000). The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the http://www.demossnewspond.com/pf/presskit/generalstats.htm
Extractions: Wilberforce Forum Criminal Justice Statistics 6.6 million men, women, and youth are under correctional supervision in Americaincarceration, probation, or parole (2002). Studies show that the high price tag of incarceration ($146 billion annually) is not leading to a solution to crime. The number of people under correctional supervision has doubled in ten years: Today there are 6.6 million men and women under correctional supervisionincarceration, probation or parolein the United States, compared with 3.2 million in 1990. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, August 2002)
American Prison Population Surpasses 2 Million largest reported declines in prison populations occurred in states such as Violentcrime, which is offenders has yet to show itself in rates of incarceration. http://salt.claretianpubs.org/sjnews/2003/04/sjn0304f.html
Extractions: For the first time in history, the number of inmates in American prisons and jails has exceeded 2 million. As of June 30, 2002, there were 1.35 million prisoners in State and Federal prisons and an additional 665, 475 in local jails, according to a new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This represents an increase of nearly 2 percent over the first six months of 2002. The rate of incarceration in the United States, 702 inmates per 100,000 residents, continues to be the highest in the world. Among black males 25 to 29, 12.9 percent were in prison or jail. Overall, 4.8 percent of black males were in prison or jails, compared to 1.7 percent of Hispanics and 0.6 percent of whites. Black women in prisons and jails continue to outnumber their white (5 times as many) and Hispanic (more than twice as many) counterparts. According to criminal justice analysts, the Bureau's report demonstrates state and federal policies continue to drive up incarceration rates despite sharp drops in violent crime rates since 1994 and efforts by many state governors and legislators from both political parties to reduce swollen prison populations and corrections budgets during an economic downturn. "The relentless increases in prison and jail populations can best be explained as the legacy of an entrenched infrastructure of punishment that has been embedded in the criminal justice system over the last 30 years," says Malcolm C. Young, Executive Director of
TV News Fuels Crime Fears The recent FBI report that crime rates have plunged seven years in a row should be cause for great joy. But many police officials instead have expressed frustration that much of the public still http://www.exodusnews.com/editorials/editorial-038.htm
Extractions: By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The recent FBI report that crime rates have plunged seven years in a row should be cause for great joy. But many police officials instead have expressed frustration that much of the public still doesnt believe they have. Many blame the media for fueling public perceptions that crime still rages and criminals lurk behind every street lamp. But for many who call the shots in TV newsrooms, frustrated police officials and FBI crime stats arent likely to change how they present crime news. Theyve spent the past two decades turning TV crime into a sure-fire formula for ratings. That formula is ridiculously simple. Just have helicopters and mobile camera crews hover over or roam around city streets looking for police car chases, dead bodies, gang shoot-outs, and drug busts. And most importantly, make sure those city streets are in black and Latino neighborhoods. The formula is bloody, exploitative, and racist. But it is a smash success.
Incarceration Crisis main culprits of our current overincarceration crisis has to be convicted of a drug-relatedcrime. In states with large urban populations this disparity has http://www.cochranfirm.com/cochranfiles/incarceration.html
Encyclopedia: Social Issues In The United States leading to the passage in many states of strict and three strikes laws, which leadto incarceration for life been committed, including a number of drug crimes. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Social-issues-in-the-United-States
Extractions: several. Compare All Top 5 Top 10 Top 20 Top 100 Bottom 100 Bottom 20 Bottom 10 Bottom 5 All (desc) in category: Select Category Agriculture Crime Currency Democracy Economy Education Energy Environment Food Geography Government Health Identification Immigration Internet Labor Language Manufacturing Media Military Mortality People Religion Sports Taxation Transportation Welfare with statistic: view: Correlations Printable graph / table Pie chart Scatterplot with ... * Asterisk means graphable. The United States has created one of the most impressive economies without choosing to create the same state structures for the promotion of social justice as Western Europe . There are many social and political reasons for this including: values of self-sufficiency, a conservative electorate, effects of the spoils system, and
Search down on juvenile lawbreakers and giving states incentives to report by a bipartisancrime policy think the prosecution, sentencing and incarceration of children http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/weeklyView.cfm?articlenumber=630
Crime/Justice, US & Engl/Wales: Highlights 1981, an offender s risk of being caught, convicted, and sentenced to incarcerationhas risen in the United States for all six measured crimes (murder, rape http://www.gunsandcrime.org/highs.html
Extractions: and in England and Wales, 1981-96 Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Dept of Justice Whether measured by surveys of crime victims or by police statistics, serious crime rates are not generally higher in the United States than England. (All references to England include Wales.) According to 1995 victim surveys which measure robbery, assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft crime rates are all higher in England than the United States (figures 1-4 of the report beginning on page 1). According to latest (1996) police statistics which measure incidents reported to police of murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft crime rates are higher in England for three crimes: assault, burglary, and motor vehicle theft (figures 5-10). The 1996 crime rate for a fourth crime (robbery) would have been higher in England than the United States had English police recorded the same fraction of robberies that came to their attention as American police (figure 15). The major exception to the pattern of higher crime rates is murder, although the difference between the two countries has narrowed over the past 16 years (below, and figure 5 of the report).
US: NYT: As Crime Rate Falls, Number Of Inmates Rises continued divergence between the shrinking crime rate and the rising rate of incarcerationraises a experts, including whether the United States is relying http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n044.a09.html
Extractions: BOSTON Despite a decline in the crime rate over the past five years, the number of inmates in the nation's jails and prisons rose again in 1997, led by a sharp increase of more than 9 percent in the number of people confined in city and county jails, according to a study released Sunday by the Justice Department. The continued divergence between the shrinking crime rate and the rising rate of incarceration raises a series of troublesome questions, said criminologists and law enforcement experts, including whether the United States is relying too heavily on prison sentences to combat drugs and whether the prison boom has become self-perpetuating. "In the stock market, the smart money is always with the law of gravity: What goes up must come down," said Franklin Zimring, director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California-Berkeley. "The astonishing thing with the rates of incarceration in the United States is that they've been going up for 20 straight years, defying gravity."
Drug Policy Alliance: Education Vs. Incarceration Because crimes committed on Indian reservations often fall within federal Educationnot incarceration. In the past decade, many US states have cut their budgets http://www.drugpolicy.org/race/educationvsi/
Extractions: - Lani Guinier In the United States, youth of color caught in the crossfire of the war on drugs are frequently subject to persecution, incarcerated and denied access to education opportunities. The irony is that the war on drugs is often defended as a necessary policy to protect the nation's young people. In reality, rather than protecting youth, the drug war has resulted in the institutionalized persecution of Black, Latino and Native American young people. While more and more young men and women of color are being ushered into the criminal justice system under the guise of fighting drugs, resources for educating youth are diminishing and barriers to education restrict students with drug convictions from receiving higher education.
Justice Policy Institute: Connect The Dots On Crime violence; it is that there is no credible link between crime rates and incarcerationrates. one out of every 37 adults living in the United States at the http://www.justicepolicy.org/article.php?id=237
National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com) on the Hill) is that the cost of incarceration is simply If we hope to reduce crimerates further, we will in PL 106386), which offers states incentives to http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/comment-paranzin
Crime, Punishment And Poverty In The United States crime, Punishment and Poverty in the United States. Abstract The rate ofincarceration has increased dramatically in the US since 1980. http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/Papers/dalwparchuspov.html
The Fraser Institute: Publications: Fraser Forum: March 2001 Country. Change in the crime Rate. Fall From the Peak crime Rate. Change in theIncarceration Rate. United States. 19%. -22%. 72%. Denmark. -10%. -14%. -4%. Ireland.-9%. http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/forum/2001/03/section_03.html
Extractions: Network Previous Contents Next by Stephen T. Easton For Canadians, one of the most striking statistics of the past decade is the dramatic fall in the crime rate. Since 1991, crime in Canada has fallen by 25 percent. It has fallen across the board, from homicide to vandalism (except for motor vehicle theft which is up about 6 percent.) There are many possible explanations for such a decline, one of which will be discussed below, and one of which will be discussed in the article "The Parent Trap," by Chris Schlegel, later in this issue. More broadly, though, the purpose of this article is to remind us of the magnitude of the changes that are upon us. Crime rates in Canada are displayed in figure 1, which chronicles Canadian crime patterns since 1962, the first year in which the "new" measuring system for crime was in place. This measurement is of crimes that are "known to the police." Prior to 1962, crime rate data were based on convictions for particular crimes. In the figure, the rates are per 100,000 of the general population to ensure that simple increases or decreases in the population do not lead to the perception that crime is increasing or decreasing solely on the basis of changes in the number of people. From 1962 to 1980 there were undulations, but the general tendency in each of the series was determinedly upward. The 1980s saw increasing crime rates, but the fluctuations were less clearly upward until the mid to late 1980s when there was a great leap. The upward rise in crime reached a peak in 1991. This peak is not uniform as many of the sub-series that constitute the crime rate reach their maximum values just before or just after that year, but 1991 marks a sea change in many of the categories of crime.
