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Daniel J. D’Amico Mises Academy: The American Prison State

Transitioning America’s Criminal Justice System “The United States today delivers law and order in the same socialist manner that the U.S.S.R. delivered food and shoes - and with comparable results.” --Randy Barnett (Benson, 1998, p . ii). Daniel J. D’Amico

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Daniel J. D’Amico Mises Academy: The American Prison State

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  1. Transitioning America’s Criminal Justice System “The United States today delivers law and order in the same socialist manner that the U.S.S.R. delivered food and shoes - and with comparable results.” --Randy Barnett (Benson, 1998, p. ii) Daniel J. D’Amico Mises Academy: The American Prison State

  2. Prison Inmates in the US

  3. Correlations

  4. Correlations with smaller sample

  5. Criminal Justice and the Financial Crisis • $2,000,000,000: Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program • $225,000,000: grants to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system • $40,000,000: competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border • $225,000,000: assistance to Indian tribes • $100,000,000: Office for Victims of Crime • $125,000,000: for assistance to law enforcement in rural States and rural areas, to prevent and combat crime, especially drug-related crime. • $50,000,000: for Internet Crimes Against Children initiatives. • $225,000,000 for grants to combat violence against women • Total: $2,990,000,000

  6. What is Transition Economics? • Comparative Economics: Markets vs. Planning • Transition Economics: How do we move from here to there? • Development Economics: How do we grow market economies?

  7. Policy Suggestions *Radically cut federal and state criminal justice financing. Consider constitutional constraint moving forward. *Deregulate private security industry. *End all prohibitions on controlled substances and victimless crimes. *”De-criminalize” property violations and allow for civil arbitration.

  8. Shock Therapy

  9. The case for radically cutting centralized criminal justice financing *Hard budget constraints promote efficient resource allocation. *Violent crime is currently low. *The cultural proximity between the American urban poor and market processes is low relative to other shock therapy cases. *Informal networks tend to be resilient and adaptive.

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