The'punitive turn'has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state,
and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrain for exploration by geographers …

The text contains 18 chapters in 5 parts. The first part looks at the criminal justice system
today, with emphasis on crime definition and crime types, the purpose and structure of the …

The authors examine the impact of prison conditions on future criminal behavior. The take
over is based on a unique dataset on the post-release behavior of about twenty thousand …

This paper investigates how criminals learn about criminal laws. It uses a natural experiment
in which sentences were drastically increased for a specific type of recidivism in France. In …

I study the effects of prison quality on recidivism using individual-level data from Colombia.
To estimate causal effects, I leverage the quasi-random assignment of inmates to newer …

RTI International n the context of growing evidence that prisoners' family relationships play a
pivotal role in their reintegration after release, Thomas Mowen and Christy Visher (2016, this …

Drawing on theory and research on prisoner behavior, this study examines whether spatial
distance from home influences inmates' likelihood of engaging in misconduct. Three …

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American
criminal justice system address a defendant's family status? And, second, how should a …

Few people envied David Kaczynski. In 1996, he found some old writings by his brother Ted
that were similar in tone and content to a manifesto submitted to newspapers in 1995 by a …

ABSTRACT A few decades of comparative studies of public vs. private prison performance
have failed to give a strong edge to either sector in terms of quality. That supposed market …