NCJ Number
103370
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1986) Pages: 95-106
Date Published
1986
Length
12 pages
Annotation
In this paper, the relationship between crime and imprisonment rates is explored in more detail by examining the rates for individual crime types.
Abstract
Given the observation that aggregate crime rates have increased far more rapidly than imprisonment rates in many countries, the possible existence of an adaptive mechanism is explored, where the imprisonment rates increase with the crime rates for serious offenses but not for minor offenses. Analysis of data from West Germany appears to support such a hypothesis. (Publisher abstract)