A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence in the community

05/13/2019 Scholarship

By David J Harding, Jeffrey D Morenoff, Anh P. Nguyen, Shawn D. Bushway, Ingrid A. Binswanger & Campaign Zero

Scholarship: According to research published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, sentencing someone to prison has no effect on their chances of violent crime reoffending within five years of being released from prison.