This paper examines the use of tines and imprisonment to deter individuals from engaging in harmful activities. These sanctions are analyzed separately as well as together, first for identical risk-neutral individuals and then for two groups of risk-neutral individuals who differ by wealth. When fines are used alone and individuals are identical, the optimal tine and probability of apprehension...

OBJECTIVES We studied a sample of homeless and marginally housed adults to examine whether a history of imprisonment was associated with differences in health status, drug use, and sexual behaviors among the homeless. METHODS We interviewed 1426 community-based homeless and marginally housed adults. We used multivariate models to analyze factors associated with a history of imprisonment. RE...

In the last 20 years, there has been a growing international recognition that prison is an inappropriate response to women in conflict with the law and a subsequent concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners to reduce the number of women imprisoned (Sudbury 2005; Sheehan, McIvor and Trotter 2011). Across jurisdictions, lawbreaking by women differs in a number of important ways fro...

Exposure to the imprisonment of a parent during childhood is associated with poor health outcomes. After controlling for several socio-demographic factors, Lee and colleagues found significant increases in rates of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, cholesterol levels, asthma, migraines and HIV/AIDS in adults who had experienced parental imprisonment as children. For paternal ...

This article studies the optimal use of fines and imprisonment when an offender’s level of wealth cannot be observed by the enforcement authority. I employ a model in which there are two types of offenders — a low-wealth type and a high-wealth type. The consequence of the unobservability of wealth depends on whether the enforcement authority would employ fines alone, or would also impose impris...

The objective of this paper is to understand the impact incarceration and potential reduce its unintended residual effects through initiatives a non-profit humanitarian organisation called Humans San Quentin (HoSQ). Using critical methodological approach supported by established academic scholarship we argue that social death occurs as consequence suffering pains imprisonment. results also indi...

In this study, we analyze the features of modern imprisonment. The author, first all, starts by pointing out trend penal populism which imposes a series negative consequences for entire social system and then evaluates five main theses related to criticism criminal sanctions were indeed raised Foucault with an aim determine whether ultimately, today, something has been altered in era global int...

BACKGROUND Reports linking the deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric care with homelessness and imprisonment have been published widely. AIMS To identify cohort studies that followed up or traced back long-term psychiatric hospital residents who had been discharged as a consequence of deinstitutionalisation. METHOD A broad search strategy was used and 9435 titles and abstracts were screened...

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION. From mass incarceration to targeted policing: Introduction to the Special Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Richard Rosenfeld EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Overview of “Imprisonment and crime: Can both be reduced?” . . . . . . 9 Steven N. Durlauf, Daniel S. Nagin RESEARCH ARTICLE. Impr...