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Money Well Spent: How Positive Social Investments Will Reduce Incarceration Rates, Improve Public Safety, and Promote the Well-Being of Communities
Money Well Spent: How Positive Social Investments Will Reduce Incarceration Rates, Improve Public Safety, and Promote the Well-Being of Communities
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 28, 2010
ANNOTATION: The relationship between poverty, crime, and incarceration is explained through this study of Washington, DC. Sections of this report include: while crime is down, arrests are up, particularly in low-income communities; increasing investments in housing will reduce incarceration rates, improve public safety, and promote community well-being; increasing access to mental health and substance abuse treatment will reduce incarceration rates, improve public safety, and promote community well-being; increasing investments in job training and employment will reduce incarceration rates, improve public safety, and promote community well-being; conclusion and recommendations.
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