Public Policy, Crime, and the Hispanic Community

Raul Yzaguirre

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1987, vol. 494, issue 1, 101-104

Abstract: Hispanics in America have experienced the greatest rise in poverty of any minority group during the 1980s. As a result, Hispanics also have experienced an increase in crime in their communities. Many of the federal government's opportunity-creating programs have been abolished or drastically cut back since 1981, even though the best way to fight crime is to provide jobs. It is more cost-effective in the long term to provide funding for job-training programs as a crime prevention strategy than to pay $30,000 per year to incarcerate an individual after being convicted of a crime that was committed because that individual had no money.

Date: 1987
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