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Less Prison + More Policing = Less Crime
How Criminology Can Save the States from Bankruptcy
Lawrence W. ShermanJerry Lee Centers of Criminology
Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania
April 21, 2010
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Summary
If criminal justice policy were based only on current evidence of its cost-effectiveness, we would have
• Less money spent on prison• More money spent on police• Fewer Serious Crimes, Less Total Harm• Fewer states threatened with bankruptcy
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Cost-Effectiveness of Prison? 1. General Deterrence? Unknown
2. Specific Deterrence? Unknown (Weak evidence of No Effect, or Net Increase)
3. Incapacitation: Wasted on Many.• Most people want “Willie Hortons” in prison• Relatively few people in prison are “Willie Hortons” • Many “Willie Hortons” get probation, parole• Only Virginia has adopted risk-based sentencing• Even Virginia fails to use seriousness as key factor
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Cost-Effectiveness of Police?
• General Deterrence: Hot Spots Patrols (displacement debate)Traffic and minor crime enforcementPossibly total N of police
• IncapacitationSerious Repeat Offenders
• Situational Crime Prevention: POP • Specific Deterrence: More diversion, less court
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Less Crime?
Lock Up The Worst, Manage the Rest• Lock Up The Worst: Less Serious Crime• Manage the Rest: More Surveillance by Police with
probation & parole • Criminal Events vs. People Who Commit Crime
1. Individuals Events in Hot Spots2. Police presence deters events 3. POP alters causal structure of events
• Crime Victims Prefer Diversion, Also Reducing Crime
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Criminologists at Work
Daniel Nagin Joan Petersilia
Richard Berk David Weisburd
Frank Cullen Anthony Braga
Kate Bowers Chris Koper
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Outline
1. Premises2. Key Concepts
--“Push-button” Policy Systems-- Crime Harm Index (CHI)-- Risk-Based Policies --A General Theory of Crime, Prisons & Police
3. Evidence on Prisons4. Evidence on Policing5. Who Can Push the Buttons? How?
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1. Premises: What Criminal Justice Needs
People Need Criminal Justice to 1. Protect them from loss of liberty to be secure2. Hold offenders accountable for their crimes3. Cost taxpayers as little as possible
This Requires a System of Criminal Justice thata. Produces consequences for every decision that areb. Predictable, based on good evidence, and c. Chosen democratically, by managing the system
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2. Key Concepts
A. “Push-Button” Policy Systems
B. Crime Harm Index: CHI
C. Risk-Based Policies
D. General Theory of Crime, Prisons & Police
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2. a. “Push-Button” Policy Systems
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Contrast
Before Keynes
• Case Studies• Trends • Histories• Explanations• Micro-level studies• Little intervention• No “buttons” to push• Economy beyond control
After Keynes
• Government has key buttons
• Pushing can help a lot• Which ones to push?• When to push them?• What effect predicted?• How do buttons affect
each other?
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Push-Button Criminology
• Case-by-case crime policy now “Laissez-Faire”• Interventionist policy: more control of trends• Key buttons to push: prisons, police, probation
& parole• Pushing wrong buttons, case-by-case: research
evidence shows--Too much prison for too little benefit --Not enough optimizing of police
• Pushing right buttons requires system policy• Guided by a general theory
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A General Theory
1. Macro-economics:--societies as the unit of analysis--not individuals--not transactions
2. Rates across societies:--Independent variables
(causes)--Dependent variables
(effects)Money Employment
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Neo-Keynesian Economics
Causes (Independent)
• Money supply• Interest Rates• Tariffs • Taxation• Deficits
Effects (Dependent)
• Employment• GDP • Gross National Happiness
(Bhutan):--crime--disease--mortality--inequality
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Macro-Criminology
Causes (Independent)
• Prison
• Police
• Probation/Parole
Effects (Dependent)
• Crime
• Detection Rates
• Crime Harm Index (CHI)
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2.b. Crime Harm Index ( CHI )?• Not UCR Index—Challenge to BJS! (US Senate) • Like Consumer Price Index (CPI)• CHI Elements weighted according to formula• Sum of each (Crime X Cost = Cost per event)
Divided by Population (CHI per person)• Murder = $5 million, Burglary = $1,000 • British Crime Survey uses some costs of crime• Could also be based on public opinion data• Limited to reliably counted categories
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Beyond Neo-Classical Deterrence
Assumptions that• All crimes cause equal harm• All offenders commit crimes of equal harm• All prisons prevent equal harm per inmate • All police deter equal numbers of crimes• General, not specific, deterrence rules most• Punishment never escalates crime, just deters
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BAD “Push-Button Criminology”
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Total Incarceration Rate
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Non-Police Data: Different Trend(BJS—NCVS)
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Police Count Crime Count
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Not Complex Enough for CHI
• Prisoners vary highly in risk of “Willie Horton” crimes• Incapacitation effects on Crime Harm Index vary by risk
level of people imprisoned• Imprisonment effects on CHI vary by age, first offense,
etc. • Police impact on CHI varies highly by what they do • Especially vary in allocating time by risk level to
1. places2. offenders3. victims
• Theories of CHI Must Focus on Risk of Serious Harm
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2.c. Risk-Based Policies
• Police
• Prosecutors
• Sentencing; Prisons
• Parole and Probation
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Peaks and Valleys of Crime(Distribution of Violent Offenses in Tokyo)
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A “Hockey Stick” Cumulative Curve:
The “Power Few”
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Normal Distribution
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The Willie Horton Problem: Over-Prediction of High Risk
• Extreme cases put low-risk people in prison• “Just in case”• No Prediction More False Positives----------------------------• Response Assumes Normal Curve • Increases dosage for all, not few• Rising Prison Rates• Not needed if responding to the “power few”
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Risk-Based Policy:Foundation of Cost-Effectiveness
• Pew Trust Report• RAND 1982 Report on Selective Incapacitation• Idea rejected by 1986 NAS Report on Error• False positives too high for values• But prison rate has tripled• False positives are embedded in sentencing• Actuarial Risk could get them out, not put
them in
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Since 1986: New Generation of Risk Forecasting
• Based only on Prior Charges, Residence, Age, Sex—no PSR• Nothing qualitative• More like a short-term weather forecast • Based on huge samples• E.g., 30,000 in Philadelphia • Journal Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2009
Richard Berk
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Clinical vs. Statistical Forecasts
• Since Meehl 1954 Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction
• Statistical Prediction beats Clinical • Most contests before statistical learning• Cheap supercomputers• “Data mining” that assays every possible
pattern of precursors• Identifies best prediction combinations
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2-Dimensional Risk—or More?
Seriousness Low High
Low 1 2Frequency*
High 3 4
*Not probability (prevalence)
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High Risk (2%)
Neither High nor Low Risk (38%)
Low Risk (60%)
Geoffrey Barnes (2007) 2-Year Berk Forecast Test,
Philadelphia APPD Cases
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High Risk 2% vs. Bottom 60%
Two Years From Forecast Date
Charges for Any Offence 8 X more
Charges Serious Offence 10 X more
Charges Murder or Attempt 75 X more
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High
Neither
Low
Group Average Number of Charges for ANY Offense Within Two Years of Probation Start
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High
Neither
Low
Average Number of Charges for SERIOUS Crimes Within Two Years of Probation Start
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High
Neither
Low
Average Charges for MURDER or Attempted Murder Within Two Years of Probation Start
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Total Charges:High Risk 2% Over 2 Years
For every 100 Offenders:
--37 charges of murder or attempted murder
--318 charges of serious crime (murder, rape, robbery)
--1800 charges for all crimes
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2.d. A General Theory of Crime, Prisons & Police
1. The higher the proportion of inmates who are high-frequency and high-harm, the more cost-effective prisons will be in lowering CHI.
2. The higher the proportion of police time spent on high-risk places, victims and offenders, the more cost-effective police will be in lowering CHI.
3. The more low-risk offenders police hold accountable for their crimes without using prison, the more cost-effective police at reducing CHI.
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1. Prisons
The higher the proportion of inmates who are high-frequency and high-harm, the more cost-effective prisons will be in lowering CHI.
NB: Prisons would have to have many fewer inmates to become more cost-effective
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2. Police Time
The higher the proportion of police time on high-risk places, victims and offenders, the more cost-effective police will be in lowering CHI.
NB: a. Just adding police is not predicted to cause less crime or harmb. Reductions in crime harm could come with even fewer police, depending on their focus
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3. Police Dispositions
The more low-risk offenders police hold accountable for their crimes without using prison, the more cost-effective police will be at lowering CHI.
NB: If police stop using arrest and prosecution where tested alternatives are available, they will be more cost-effective without spending more money.
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My Title is Not Quite Right• Less prison, more police = less crime?• Not necessarily• Easier to say it that way• But risk-based policy is crucial• Theory of cost-effective CHI effects depends on it• Thus, conditional on optimizing risk-based
allocations, • More prison could, with More Police = Less Crime• But More Prison would not Cost Effectiveness
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Taking Cost Into Account
• Prison rate hits diminishing returns quickly
• Very few offenders per 100 seem worth locking up
• Look at the evidence: prisons and police
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3. Evidence on Prisons
If we use risk analysis,
• Who Goes to Prison?• Who Doesn’t?
Preliminary analysis in Philadelphia suggests
• half of all sentenced to prison are low-risk, yet • half of all high-risk offenders not given prison
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Nagin and Cullen, 2009Crime and Justice Vol. 38
Daniel Nagin Frank Cullen
“Special” Effects of Imprisonment on the Imprisoned:• 5 Experimental studies of custody more crime• 11 Matching studies juvenile custody more crime• Propensity Score Matching mixed effects
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4. Evidence on Police:Clear effects, More on Costs Needed
a. Places1. Hot Spot Patrols 2. Problem-Oriented Policing3. Displacement
b. OffendersHigh-frequency, high-harm
c. DispositionsYouth offendersDomestic ViolenceRestorative Justice
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Campbell Collaboration
• Systematic Reviews• Many with meta-analyses• Peer-Reviewed• NIJ support (UK, Holland, Canada, Sweden)• Chinese and English versions • Norwegian Government website:
www.campbellcollaboration.org
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a. Policing Places
1. Anthony Braga review: Increasing police in high risk places reduces crime & disorder there
2. Koper & Mayo-Wilson: policing gun crime places less gun crime
3. Weisburd, et al: Problem-Oriented Policing POP less crime & disorder
4. Displacement: Weisburd, Bowers, others
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b. Policing High-Risk Offenders
Two Randomized Controlled Trials:
Police Foundation (Washington)
RAND (Albuquerque, NM)
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c. Detection, Dispositions, Accountability
Campbell Reviews:
• Juvenile Prosecution: Petrosino et al 2010• Domestic Violence: NIJ experiments • Restorative Justice: UK, Australia, US • Shapland, et al 2008Cost effectiveness on RJ in UK = 8 to 1 return
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Grounded Theory of Crime, Police and Prisons
• Police and prisons may cause crime as well as prevent it
• Effects of police and prisons on crime depend on who is treated how
• In general, prison does more harm than policing• In general, police do more good than prisons• Precise decisions needed to reduce harm,
increase prevention.
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5. Who Can Push the Buttons? How?
1. Governors and State Legislatures--Sentencing Guidelines--Parole Violations (less stick?)--Bigger carrot: State funding more local police with prison
savings 2. County Prosecutors & Judges
--Diversion from prosecution , Based on risk--Incentives of more police in their county
3. Local Police Chiefs --Hot spot patrols--Problem-Oriented Policing (POP)--Restorative solutions
4. Federal Leadership: --showing the way --funding more police, as incentives to states
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Bankrupting States
NY Times: Schwarzenegger Seeks Shift From Prisons to Schools (by Jennifer Steinhauer Jan 6, 2010 )
• State Constitutional Amendment• Referendum• No more money to prisons than to U of Calif. • But how to do it?• Privatization? Probably not.
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HOW? Political Evidence
• Reducing prison by early release may backfire
• IF Money appears to be only motive
• No analysis of public safety
• No claim that less prison could less crime
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Front-End Beats Back-End
• Arrest• Prosecution• Sentencing Guidelines• Risk Analysis at each step—before prison. • “These people were not sent to prison
on purpose!”• Why? Because it would have wasted your
money. They weren’t dangerous enough.
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UK Early Release
• 14 Days before sentence to end• 2007-2010• Many crimes committed 2 weeks after release• But same would be true after full term• No evidence that net crime went up• But no randomized trial to test that theory• Result: Labour Prime Minister blamed
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The Politics of Early Release
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Emergency Release--US
• NY Times: (Monica Davey, March 4, 2010)
“Safety Is Issue as Budget Cuts Free Prisoners”
• Oregon suspends program—radio ads• Illinois program a “big mistake.”• Colorado—$14 million savings lost• Michigan—big drop, big challenges
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Carrots and Sticks
• Cost-saving is a stick, at front end or back
• More police is a carrot
• Cohen’s national data show people prefer to spend more money on police than prisons
• Use some savings on prison budgets to hire more police
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A Federal Carrot?
• Plan A: Federal program could match local funds invested in policing out of less prison for low-risk offenders.
• Plan B: Federal program could match local funds invested in policing high-harm targets
• Plan C: Both A and B• Federal buttons to lower Crime Harm Index
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Federal Leadership:Research and Development
1. More support for automated risk forecasting 2. More Randomized trials, COST-EFFECTIVENESS,
• Risk-Based Policing • Risk-Based Charging• Risk-Based Sentencing• Risk-Based Parole Release• Risk-Based Parole Revocation
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Beyond a Crisis
• Bankruptcy is a bad reason to do this.• But it is a good opportunity.• If the result is less crime, cost issues may fade• The Obama administration has made history in
health care• Can we now make history in criminal justice as well?
My answer: Yes we can.
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THANK YOU
Lawrence W. ShermanJerry Lee Centers of Criminology
Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania
April 21, 2010