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Understanding Crime and Punishment in Arizona

ContributorsHart, William (Author) / Arizona Indicators (Project) (Publisher) / Morrison Institute for Public Policy (Publisher)
Created2009-11-01
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Arizona’s prison population is on the rise and the current fiscal year General Fund has $880 million budgeted for corrections. Read the series debut of Indicator Insight to learn about trends in crime rates, juvenile arrests, and recidivism.

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Sustainability: The Urban Heat Island

ContributorsWittlinger, Sally (Author) / Arizona Indicators (Project) (Publisher) / Morrison Institute for Public Policy (Publisher)
Created2010-01-31
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During the mid-part of the last decade, when the population growth rate was at its highest, the Phoenix area experienced rapid development and urban sprawl. The result has been an intensification of the Urban Heat Island effect. In this edition of Decades, author Sally Wittlinger discusses this uncomfortable consequence of…

During the mid-part of the last decade, when the population growth rate was at its highest, the Phoenix area experienced rapid development and urban sprawl. The result has been an intensification of the Urban Heat Island effect. In this edition of Decades, author Sally Wittlinger discusses this uncomfortable consequence of urbanization.