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Peer reviewedPetersilia, Joan – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1994
Whether the state's vast investment in criminal justice has done any good or made communities in California any safer is studied by reviewing California crime and victimization data, imprisonment rates, and criminal justice expenditures over two decades. Results suggest there has been little impact of the immense investment in crime control. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Cost Effectiveness, Crime, Drug Abuse
