We assess the degree to which the mentally ill who would have been in mental hospitals in
years past have been transinstitutionalized to prisons and jails. We also assess the …

A substantial amount of research has been devoted to explaining the reasons behind the
unprecedented explosion of US prison populations. While the majority of prior studies …

Since the deinstitutionalization movement, many researchers have suggested that
psychiatric patients have moved from one type of institution to another-a process known as …

This article reports on a study of trends in imprisonment in the state of California over the
period 1980-91. Documenting and analysing imprisonment in California is important to an …

Previous research suggests that mass incarceration in the United States may have
contributed to lower rates of violent crime since the 1990s but, surprisingly, finds no …

When Lionel Penrosepublished his study,“Mental Disease and Crime: Outline of a
Comparative Study of European Statistics” 1 75 years ago, he had no way of knowing that …

State and federal incarceration rates grew by over 200 percent between 1980 and 1996.
The dominant factor is drug offending, which grew by ten times, followed by assault and …

We extend earlier analyses of the factors that explain differences among the US states in
imprisonment rates by demonstrating the importance of state culture and political …

This paper explores both" who" has driven up US prison populations in recent years and"
why" this growth has occurred. At least since the early 1990s, the" who" appears to primarily …

Psychiatric and sociological thoughts regarding deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and
its impact on the American jail system are offered. The authors analyze national data …