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Some claim rising crime rates justify jailing more people, others that such policies cut crime. Evidence from around the world shows those claims are wrong and that we should be looking at inequality.
Most crime in NSW has been declining since the early 2000s, and the state’s current murder rate is half what it was in 1988. So why is the NSW prison population growing?
The Northern Territory stands out for having one of the highest imprisonment rates in the world - much higher even than in the US - and it’s hard to argue that this does the community much good.
Indigenous people are jailed at a rate 18 times that of non-Aboriginal Western Australian adults, but the overall rate is high too. The great costs of this punitive approach yield few clear benefits.
Queensland’s rates of imprisonment had been falling, but have undergone a sharp reversal - much of it driven by the nation’s highest rates of return by prisoners released into the community.
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Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Criminal Law, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Emeritus Professor, Law Faculty, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Queensland
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PhD Researcher, Menzies School of Health Research
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Professor of Law and Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, Lancaster University
