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Reducing Mass Incarceration Through Cost Salience: Why Juries Should Be Told the Cost of Incarceration

Abstract

One of the flaws in the operation of the criminal justice system is not only the failure to be attentive to cost, but an arrogance that somehow you can never put a price on justice. Even if incarceration provides significant benefits, the sober realization that it comes at a significant cost has been long missing from judge and jury decisionmaking.

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