Researchers at Oklahoma State University and the University of Georgia found that more girls in schools attaining an education reduces the female incarceration rate and that disparities in annual prison admissions can be linked to gender equality in education.
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Female incarceration rates decrease with gender equality in education
This suggests at least one mechanism through which increasing gender equality might contribute to an ameliorative effect on the sex gap in incarceration.
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