Evaluating the Incapacitative Benefits of Incarcerating Drug Offenders in Los Angeles and Maricopa [Arizona] Counties, 1986 and 1990
The objective of this study was to examine the observable
 offending patterns of recent and past drug offenders to assess the
 crime control potential associated with recent increases in the
 incarceration of drug offenders. The periods examined were 1986
 (representing the second half of the 1980s, when dramatic …