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David Olson, Ph.D., is a professor at Loyola University Chicago in the Criminal Justice and Criminology Department and co-director of Loyola’s interdisciplinary Center for Criminal Justice Research. Dr. Olson also is a 20-year veteran of ICJIA, where he served as director of Illinois’ Statewide Drug and Violent Crime Control Strategy...

The number of individuals under some form of correctional supervision for a felony conviction has more than doubled since the mid-1980s. This article examines individual characteristics that influence sentencing and how community context and characteristics may also play a role in whether a jurisdiction is more likely use prison as...