Modelling the dark side of prison dynamics: Quantifying the criminogenic effects of petty crime offenders’ incarceration
Farai Nyabadza · 2026
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Farai Nyabadza modeled a dark side of prisons in a PLOS ONE paper from 2026. Jailing people for petty crimes may increase later crime, if prison exposes minor offenders to harder criminal influence. Nyabadza built a model to quantify that criminogenic effect, the degree to which incarceration itself breeds crime.
The model's numbers put a measurable size on the school-of-crime effect that reformers have long warned about. Policymakers weighing short sentences for minor offenses gain a cost rarely shown in budgets: future victims and future prison load. Even readers who favor tough sentencing benefit from seeing the trade-off priced. Sentencing debates improve when both sides must answer the same arithmetic.
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| CREATOR | Farai Nyabadza |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 72141 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |