Why do people wind up back in jail? In Pasco, USF researchers try to find out
Why do people wind up back in jail? In Pasco, USF researchers try to find out
- January 4, 2020
- Kristin Turney, sociology, Tampa Bay Times, Jan. 4, 2020
A study published early last year in the Annual Review of Criminology showed that researchers of incarceration have focused almost solely on prisons, leaving jails chronically under-researched, even though more than 12 million people are jailed in the United States every year. “It’s challenging to study,” said Kristin Turney, a sociologist and associate professor at the University of California, Irvine who co-wrote the Annual Review of Criminology study. “There’s a lot of instability in the population. There’s a lot of churn in and out of jails.”
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