{"id":221,"date":"2007-05-04T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/05\/04\/more-institutionalization-less-homicide\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T00:35:00","slug":"more-institutionalization-less-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/05\/04\/more-institutionalization-less-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"more institutionalization, less homicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/384-bernard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060856652714104690\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/385-bernard.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>bernard harcourt is guest-blogging at <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2007_04_29-2007_05_05.shtml#1177942879\">volokh<\/a> this week, offering engaging posts on deinstitutionalization, incarceration, and homicide. he nicely explicates a <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=970341\">new state-level analysis<\/a> of the national evidence discussed in his january <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/bernard-harcourts-times-op-ed.html\"><em>times <\/em>op-ed<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.uchicago.edu\/files\/harcourt\/institutionalized-final.pdf\">texas law review<\/a> <\/em>piece.<\/p>\n<p>the pattern appears to hold up under a more stringent state-level panel specification: <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/files\/bernardharcourt-volokh_graph.1.JPG\"><em>aggregate <\/em>institutionalization<\/a> (prisons plus mental institutions) bears a strong <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2007_04_29-2007_05_05.shtml#1177998929\">inverse relationship to homicide<\/a> rates over a long historical period. moreover, the correlation between homicide and aggregate institutionalization is far stronger than the correlation between homicide and imprisonment. my sense is that the individual-level literature shows rather modest associations between violence and mental illness. what might account for the strong <em>aggregate <\/em>relationship?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bernard harcourt is guest-blogging at volokh this week, offering engaging posts on deinstitutionalization, incarceration, and homicide. he nicely explicates a new state-level analysis of the national evidence discussed in his january times op-ed and texas law review piece. the pattern appears to hold up under a more stringent state-level panel specification: aggregate institutionalization (prisons plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}