The US prison population stands at 1.43 million persons, with an additional 740,000
persons in local jails. Nearly all will eventually return to society. This review examines the …

Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are well documented and widespread. The
present review examines racial disparities in three areas of the system: policing, prison …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-
informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

Using a random judge design and panel data from Norway, we estimate that imprisonment
discourages further criminal behavior, with reoffense probabilities falling by 29 percentage …

Abstract Communities across the United States are reconsidering the public safety benefits
of prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, yet there is little empirical evidence to …

We review economics research regarding the effect of police, punishments, and work on
crime, with a particular focus on papers from the last twenty years. Evidence in favor of …

The COVID-19 mitigation measures require a fundamental shift in human behavior. The
present study assesses what factors influence Americans to comply with the stay at home …

The evidence in support of the deterrent effect of the certainty of punishment is far more
consistent than that for the severity of punishment. However, the evidence in support of …

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment.
Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring …