Mounting evidence links paternal incarceration to harmful outcomes for the children of incarcerated fathers. These findings hold across a host of important behavioral, developmental, and attainment outcomes, including mental health and behavioral problems, substance use, educational attainment, and social inequality. The process by which paternal incarceration causes poor outcomes is much less ...

The current study is a partial replication of previous studies designed to estimate the level of risk posed by capital murder defendants. The study draws on data describing the behavior of nearly 2,000 incarcerated capital murderers to forecast violence propensity among defendants sentenced to life imprisonment. Logistic regression is used to model various violence outcomes, relying on the foll...

review of the effect of imprisonment on mental health. Owing to the time factor much must perforce be left out which ought to be inserted, and as it is impossible to go into any detail, the most that can be hoped is to give a broad general survey. The effect of imprisonment on any particular person is the product of many factors, the most important of which are his physical health, the length a...

Crime has high social costs. The criminal justice system is costly, imprisonments have negative effects on labor force participation, and the pain for victims is significant for most types of crime. Criminal behavior is related to marginal costs and marginal utility that go beyond deterrence and punishment. Economic theory suggests that some policies, for example improved labor market opportuni...