Impact of State Sentencing Policies on Incarceration Rates in the United States, 1975-2002

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Principal Investigator(s): Stemen, Don

Summary: In order to assess the impacts of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in the United States implemented between 1975 and 2002 on state incarceration rates during that same time period, researchers conducted a two-phase study between November 2002 and March 2004. The first phase of the research involved building a framework for understanding the types of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in use between 1975 and 2002. Phase two of the project consisted of state-leve... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04456.v1

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