That analysis doesn’t tell you whether growing the incarceration rate was necessary to deal with the high homicide rate and get it to fall in half.
You could get that by comparing with other countries that reduced their homicide rates by similar amounts over similar timescales.
That analysis doesn’t tell you whether growing the incarceration rate was necessary to deal with the high homicide rate and get it to fall in half.
You could get that by comparing with other countries that reduced their homicide rates by similar amounts over similar timescales.