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What Caused Crime to Decline?
Thursday, March 5, 2015 12:24
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Econintersect: The reflex reaction answer would be increased rates of incarceration, but that would be wrong. A study by Oliver Roeder, Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Julia Bowling of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University (NYU) School of Law finds that incarceration ranks low on the list of causative factors for lower crime rates over the past several decades.
Source: http://econintersect.com/b2evolution/blog1.php/2015/02/28/what-caused-crime-to-decline
