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Systematic research on the link between incarceration and crime rates began in the late 1960s and continued with increased momentum throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In response to a vigorous national debate over this research and over the appropriate role of criminal sanctions in reducing high-crime rates, a panel was convened in the late 1970s by the National Academy of Sciences (Blumstein, Cohen, and Nagin 1978) to systematically evaluate data then available.
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Ekland-Olson, S., Kelly, W.R. (1993). Incarceration and Crime: Is There a Link?. In: Justice Under Pressure. Research in Criminology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9517-1_7
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