Data Source: Alliance on Safety and Justice (2016), Crime Survivors Speak: The First-Ever National Survey on Victims' Views on Safety and Justice. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)
This graph originally appeared in Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms.
Victims and survivors of crime prefer investments in crime prevention rather than long prison sentences.
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