Recidivism in US: Retrial detention encourages suspects to commit – rather than prevent – crimes after release
Charles Loeffler, a criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania and Daniel Nagin, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, who co-authored 2022 Annual Review have revealed that specific situation where incarceration was consistently linked to an increased likelihood of committing a crime in the future: pretrial detention. This is when people...
America’s sky-high rate of incarceration has not reined in crime, evidence now shows prison raises likelihood of breaking law
In the spring of 1968, with crime rising at alarming rates across the United States of America, Republican candidate for president Richard Nixon gave a speech in New York City outlining his solutions for America’s lawlessness. “A society that is lenient and permissive for criminals,” he said, “is a society...
Nowhere left to turn: Hit hard by Covid, South American countries no longer welcome Venezuelan migrants
The vast majority of the six million Venezuelans who have escaped poverty, insecurity, and economic collapse in their homeland since 2015 have tried to start new lives in South America. But two years after Covid-19 led governments to close borders and enforce quarantines, many are discovering that the region is...
