The impact of new prison construction on the likelihood of incarceration

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-27 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12529

Daniel D. Bonneau, Joshua C. Hall

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Abstract

Prison overcrowding is a major public policy issue with roughly 2.2 million individuals currently incarcerated in the United States. In the absence of reductions in the prison population, the only way to address overcrowding are the expansion of current facilities or the construction of new prisons. Previous research has demonstrated that factors unrelated to the law can affect the decisions made by prosecutors and judges. We investigate the effect of newly constructed prisons in Florida on the probability of defendants being sentenced to prison within 6 months of the prison receiving inmates. The results reveal that these defendants have a greater likelihood of being incarcerated in prison compared to similar defendants whose cases were resolved before the prison became operational. This indicates the potential for a regional-level substitution between jail and prison incarceration.

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新监狱建设对监禁可能性的影响

监狱人满为患是一个重大的公共政策问题，目前美国约有 220 万人被监禁。在监狱人口没有减少的情况下，解决监狱人满为患问题的唯一办法就是扩建现有设施或建造新监狱。以往的研究表明，与法律无关的因素会影响检察官和法官的决策。我们调查了佛罗里达州新建监狱对被告在监狱接收囚犯后 6 个月内被判处监禁的概率的影响。结果表明，与监狱投入使用前已结案的类似被告相比，这些被告被监禁的可能性更大。这表明，监狱和监狱监禁之间可能存在区域层面的替代关系。

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

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1.90

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.