Making Confinement Decisions

25 percent Accounting Office Alfred Blumstein amortized average billion Bureau of Justice certainty Chaiken Cohen community confinement construction costs convicted cost of crime costs and benefits Costs incurred crime prevention crime rates crime savings criminal justice system custodial costs Daniel Nagin Department of Justice Deterrence and Incapacitation deterrence policy difficult enforcement estimated expenditures facility Fair rental value Fewer frequent offenders Greer Hellman identified impris imprisonment incapacitation effects incapacitation policy Incarceration increase the risk inmate Institute of Justice interest rate Journal of Political Justice Statistics Juvenile Justice ment Nagin and Alfred Naroff National Institute number of crimes offenders to prison outlays policies that favor policy might increase Political Economy prison capacity Prison construction prison population prison space prison terms Prisoners in 1985 Private security property values punishment Quantifying reduced report Research retribution sentencing policies Skinner social costs society pays tence tion U.S. Department UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN victim losses visible elements