Why prisons continue to grow, even when crime declines
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 10:11
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study may help explain why the number of people in prison in the United States continued to rise, even as the crime rate declined significantly. A sociologist found that the US criminal justice system continues to feel the reverberations from the increase in violent crime and imprisonment that occurred from the 1960s to the early 1990s.