Locking up my generation: cohort differences in prison spells over the life course

Crime rates have dropped substantially in the United States, but incarceration rates have remained high. The standard explanation for the lasting trend in incarceration is that the policy choices from the 1980s and 1990s were part of a secular increase in punitiveness that has kept rates of incarcer...

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Main Author: Shen, Yinzhi (Author)
Contributors: Smith, Herbert L. ; Bushway, Shawn ; Sorensen, Lucy
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Criminology
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Age–period–cohort analysis
Cohort effects
Crime–punishment wave
Incarceration
Life Course