{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know","description":"Do longer prison sentences reduce crime? It seems obvious that they should. Even if they don\u2019t deter anyone, they at least keep criminals locked up where they can\u2019t hurt law-abiding citizens. If, as the studies suggest, 1% of people commit 63% of the crime, locking up that 1% should dramatically decrease crime rates regardless of whether it scares anyone else. And blue state soft-on-crime policies have been followed by increasing theft and disorder. On the other hand, people in the field keep saying there\u2019s no relationship. For example, criminal justice nonprofit Vera Institute says that Research Shows That Long Prison Sentences Don\u2019t Actually Improve Safety. And this seems to be a common position; William Chambliss, one of the nation\u2019s top criminologists, said in 1999 that \u201cvirtually everyone who studies or works in the criminal justice system agrees that putting people in prison is costly and ineffective.\u201d This essay is an attempt to figure out what\u2019s going on, who\u2019s right, whether prison works, and whether other things work better\/worse than prison. https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/prison-and-crime-much-more-than-you ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"