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The High Point Initiative

Can giving drug dealers a second chance actually reduce crime?

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Kennedy, David. "Drugs, Race and Common Ground: Reflections on the High Point Intervention." National Institute of Justice Journal, March 2009, no. 262.

Lee, David S., and Justin McCrary. "The Deterrence Effect of Prison: Dynamic Theory and Evidence." Center for Economic and Policy Studies Working Paper no. 189, July 2009.

Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility. The Pew Economic Mobility Project and the Public Safety Performance Project, September 2010.

Sites trained in the Drug Market Initiative by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice

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