According to data from the Pew Center on the States, the United States has less than five percent of the world’s population, but almost 25 percent of the world’s total prison population 15. The total number of inmates in the United States, in 2008 was larger than the populations of Seattle, Boston, Kansas City and Atlanta combined 16. Incarceration is intensely determined by race and ethnicity. Among men the highest rate is black males aged twenty to thirty-four, among women the highest rate is black females aged thirty-five to thirty-nine. According to the Pew Center, African Americans make up roughly 13% of the U.S. population, but are 40% of its prisoners, this leads to the following statistics about “Who’s Behind Bars"17.Therefore, Hatt
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He focuses on how to make community corrections work to reduce crime better than our current failed system of mass incarceration 18. According to Kleiman, the current system of mass incarceration is a social problem on the same level as crime itself. Mark Kleiman offers a really effective program of community supervision that could reduce incarceration directly by reducing both revocations and sentences for new crimes. Professor Kleiman offers an example of this model working in the real world - project HOPE which was launched, in Honolulu, Hawaii and produced truly dramatic …show more content…
Social interventions are more cost-effective in producing better public safety outcomes than expanded incarceration. The brief discusses interventions and prevention in early childhood education, juvenile justice, and interventions in community investment. This policy brief also demonstrates the effectiveness of programs, such as the Nurse Family Partnership and Functional Family Therapy that have been confirmed to be effective in reducing crime 22. In collaboration with policy makers, stakeholders, and experts that work together to develop initiatives based on state specific data and public safety needs mass incarceration could be prevented. Therefore, these policies generate cost savings that can be reinvested in rehabilitative community-based programs and prevention programs for reducing mass incarceration
He focuses on how to make community corrections work to reduce crime better than our current failed system of mass incarceration 18. According to Kleiman, the current system of mass incarceration is a social problem on the same level as crime itself. Mark Kleiman offers a really effective program of community supervision that could reduce incarceration directly by reducing both revocations and sentences for new crimes. Professor Kleiman offers an example of this model working in the real world - project HOPE which was launched, in Honolulu, Hawaii and produced truly dramatic …show more content…
Social interventions are more cost-effective in producing better public safety outcomes than expanded incarceration. The brief discusses interventions and prevention in early childhood education, juvenile justice, and interventions in community investment. This policy brief also demonstrates the effectiveness of programs, such as the Nurse Family Partnership and Functional Family Therapy that have been confirmed to be effective in reducing crime 22. In collaboration with policy makers, stakeholders, and experts that work together to develop initiatives based on state specific data and public safety needs mass incarceration could be prevented. Therefore, these policies generate cost savings that can be reinvested in rehabilitative community-based programs and prevention programs for reducing mass incarceration