TY  - Report

AU  - Andrew Bushnell



PY  - 2019
T1  - Skewed priorities: comparing the growth of prison spending with police spending
PB  - Institute of Public Affairs


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-240451
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/240451

AB  - Australia has seen rapid, unsustainable growth in its incarceration rate. Over the past ten years, the proportion of Australian residents who are incarcerated has risen by 30 percent. The purpose of this paper is to show what this increase means in real terms. Every extra dollar committed to incarceration is a dollar that might have been spent elsewhere in the criminal justice system.
ER  -