Midwest Sociology
Counting Incarceration’s Lives, Lost and Saved
Michael T. Light and Joey Marshall, “On the Weak Mortality Returns of the Prison Boom: Comparing Infant Mortality and Homicide in the Incarceration Ledger,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2017 The expansion of the U.S. criminal justice system is often justified in the name of public safety. While incarceration does have crime-reducing capabilities, it […]
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