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Ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons

Ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons: There are less harmful ways to stop a lot of crime from happening in the first place.

Listen to Jennifer Doleac — Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, and Director of the Justice Tech Lab — is an expert on empirical research into policing, law and incarceration

"The research literature suggests that the presence of police officers does reduce crime, though they’re not cheap, and as is increasingly recognised, impose substantial harms on the populations they are meant to be protecting, especially communities of colour."



Source: 80000hours.org

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