This research was designed to discover correlative effects of US GDP with prison population. This arose out of the lack of studies conducted on economic effects of prison laborers within the U.S. econ..
This research was designed to discover correlative effects of US GDP with prison population. This arose out of the lack of studies conducted on economic effects of prison laborers within the U.S. economic framework. A rudimentary statistical regression was executed to determine the effects of real GDP based in the year 2012 with the U.S. prison population. Qualitative and theoretical sources supplemented the analysis to provide context to the trends that were discovered. Change in U.S. GDP was found to have ambiguous effects on the prison population which debunks the notion that recessions cause escalations in serious criminal activity.
