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Criminal

Sep. 5, 2009

Study: Parolees Increase Crime in Neighborhood

Local crime increases when parolees return to a neighborhood - but those effects can be curbed under the right conditions, a new study found.

By Greg Katz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Local crime increases when parolees return to a neighborhood - but those effects can be curbed under the right conditions, a new study found.

The survey of demographic and crime data from Sacramento communities over four years was released this week by the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections at UC Irvine.

Researchers found "particularly robust" evidence that parolees reentering a neighborhood incr...

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