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The Demographic Implications of the Prison Boom
Becky Pettit,Bryan L. Sykes +1 more
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The article was published on 2008-07-31 and is currently open access. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prison & Boom.read more
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Choice or Constraint? Mass Incarceration and Fertility Outcomes Among American Men ∗
Bryan L. Sykes,Becky Pettit +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how exposure to the criminal justice system affects the fertility of men and found that incarceration constrains the ferility of men, and that these reductions would not have been due to individual choice in the absence of incarceration.
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City on a Hill, City Behind Bars : Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and American Exceptionalism
TL;DR: Tocqueville and de Beaumont as mentioned in this paper pointed out that the U.S. incarceration rate is five to ten times higher than any other country in the world.