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rison record. State prisons contain a higher percentage of violent offenders than do federal prisons, but drug offenders are beginning to constitute a greater percentage of state prison populations (Smolowe, 1994, February 7, p. 56; Ingwerson, 1994, February 18, p. 1).

Studies by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics have found that felony offenders with prior convictions ran a smaller risk of going to prison between 1988 and 1990 than in previous years. Allen Beck, a bureau research director, says that this does not represent a displacement of vio

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