The effect of prison population size on crime rates
Subtitle: evidence from prison overcrowding litigation
By: Steven D. Levitt.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper no. 5119; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 5119.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Prisons -- Overcrowding -- Law and legislation -- United States.; Crime -- United States -- Econometric models.; Prisons -- Overcrowding -- United States -- Econometric models.
Notes: "May 1995."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [38-39].

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