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Prison is the strongest sanction supporting the punitive sentences handed down by the courts and, as such, receives the more serious and intractable offenders. Information derived from the prison process should, then, afford complementary data to that afforded by the court system. Sets of data reported in Francis (1981) showed that information collected from each state on prisoners presented many consistencies and just a few variations.
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Francis, R.D. (2014). Prisons. In: Birthplace, Migration and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386489_8
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