The impact of prison on crime

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom

Volumn 9781610444651, Issue , 2009, Pages 119-150

  Bushway, Shawn D ^a   Paternoster, Raymond ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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