of limited state resources.14 These differing approaches taken by the two states have yielded opposite outcomes: while both the prison population and yearly cost of incarceration in Kentucky continue to rise, Missouri's incarceration rate saw a continual decline in the two years following the ...
Merlo and Wolpin (2008) used data from the 1997 youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY97) to explore the relationship between incarceration rates of young adult black males aged 19 to 22 and family background characteristics, as well as juvenile behaviors. They found that the...