PowerPoint: Does Prison Work?

Previously posted on Crime and Deviance Channel, this PowerPoint Presentation outlining Bandyopadhyay et al’s “Acquisitive Crime: Imprisonment, Detection and Social Factors” (2012) research is now available in two forms:

1. Click to advance Presentation.

2. Auto-advance Presentation.

The research looked at three main questions:

How are crime rates affected by the costs and benefits of crime?

Does sentencing reduce crime?

Are short sentences more effective than long sentences?

The quantitative analysis of crime rates covered a 16-year period (1992 – 2008) and examined 4 types of crime:

burglary

theft and handling

fraud and forgery

robbery.

This updated PowerPoint Presentation corrects a couple of spelling errors, uses an embedded font for correct display on machines that don’t have the required font installed and adjusts the Presentation to Widescreen.