Prior research has established that the characteristics of “places” are an important aspect of
public safety and local quality of life. Growth in the rates of incarceration since 1973 …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

The majority of prison inmates come from and return to disadvantaged, minority
communities. This paper explores how high rates of incarceration may weaken already …

Since the mid-1970s, the United States has experienced an enormous rise in incarceration
and accompanying increases in returning prisoners and in postrelease community …

This article explores how incarceration affects crime rates at the neighborhood level.
Incarceration is analyzed as a form of residential mobility that may damage local network …

Incarceration, whose putative goal is the reduction of crime, may at higher concentrations
actually increase crime by overwhelming neighborhoods with limited resources. The present …

Objectives Research on race and urban poverty views incarceration as a new and important
aspect of social disadvantage in inner-city neighborhoods. However, in quantitative studies …

Research Summary: This paper reviews and evaluates the existing (and limited) evidence
that increases in incarceration have affected the ability of residential neighborhoods to …

Over the last thirty years, the US penal population increased from around 300,000 to more
than two million, with more than half a million prisoners returning to their home communities …

We examined the influence of individual and neighborhood characteristics and spatial
contagion in predicting reincarceration on a sample of 5,354 released Pennsylvania state …