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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013x816q83m| Title: | States of incarceration: The global context 2021 |
| Contributors: | Widra, Emily Herring, Tiana |
| Keywords: | Prisons—United States—Statistics Mass incarceration—United States |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2021 |
| Publisher: | Prison Policy Initiative |
| Place of Publication: | Northampton, MA |
| Description: | The incarceration rates in every U.S. state are out of line with the entire world, and we found that this disparity is not explainable by differences in crime or “violent crime.” In fact, there is little correlation between high rates of “violent crime” and the rate at which the U.S. states lock people up in prisons and jails. When we compare U.S. states and other nations in terms of both “violent crime” and incarceration, we find ourselves more closely aligned with nations with authoritarian governments or recently large-scale internal armed conflicts. Rather than any of the founding NATO member countries traditionally compared to the United States, the only countries that approach the incarceration rate and “violent crime” rates of the 50 states are El Salvador, Panama, Peru, and Turkey. Every U.S. state, and the United States as a nation, is an outlier in the global context. No other country incarcerates as many people, including countries with similar rates of “violent crime:” |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013x816q83m |
| Related resource: | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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