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Justice Fellowship Criminal Justice Crisis Index: 1999 Edition

Justice Fellowship Criminal Justice Crisis Index: 1999 Edition

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Justice Fellowship (Washington, DC)

Published 1999. 16 pages.

Several key categories are used to rank the effect of the criminal justice crisis upon states. The index focuses upon statistics dealing with the crime rate, incarceration rate, and incarceration costs. For 1998, Washington, D.C. is ranked first, with West Virginia ranked fifty-first (the same positions they held in 1997). This report also includes a table comparing state spending on inmates vs. students (Utah is ranked first and spends 827% more on inmates than students (and a section describing the effectiveness of restorative justice. Accession Number: 016108

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