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FROM: NEW YORK TIMES

Monday Study Finds Steady Increase At All Levels of Government In Cost of Criminal Justice
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D13FD3B580C728DDDAB0894DA404482
By FOX BUTTERFIELD

National Desk | February 11, 2002

ABSTRACT - Bureau of Justice Statistics study finds cost of combating crime in United States, for police, prisons and courts, was $147 billion in 1999, more than four times amount spent in 1982; finds federal, state and local expenditures for police, prisons and courts increased every year in 1990's, even as crime fell during decade; report does not directly address question of how effective spending has been; it does find that in general, crime rates and spending on criminal justice are related: that states with high crime rates tend to have higher than average expenditures; graph (M) The cost of combating crime in the United States, for police, prisons and courts, was $147 billion in 1999, the last year for which figures are available, according to a study released yesterday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. That is more than four times the $36 billion spent on the criminal justice system in 1982. Federal, state and local expenditures for police, prisons and courts increased every year in the 1990's, even as crime fell during the decade.

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