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Crooks get harder.(Society)(Brief Article)
Timothy Hughes and Doris James Wilson, "Reentry Trends in the United States," Bureau of Justice Statistics, August 20, 2003 (ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs)
The United States imprisons a greater percentage of its population than any other large Western nation, and enjoys lower crime rates at least partly as a result. At least 95 percent of those now in prison will eventually return to society. It therefore behooves society to worry about what happens to them.
Hughes and Wilson, both statisticians for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, have compiled the first comprehensive evaluation of prisoner reentry. The two find that ...
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