Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

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People Likely To Temper Criminal Sentences When Given Information About The Cost Of Incarceration

“Ensuring some amount of punishment was extremely important to our participants, but when confronted with the rising price tag of those moral convictions, people are forced to think about how limited dollars are best spent, and under these conditions most of them ultimately tempered their sentencing recommendations“

Georgia State University

January 22, 2019