The insidious momentum of American mass incarceration / Franklin E. Zimring.
2020
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The insidious momentum of American mass incarceration / Franklin E. Zimring.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Part I. The road to 2020
An American surprise
Crime, law enforcement and sentencing in an era of prison expansion
Why the prison-boom generation?
How American institutions encourage and sustain high rates of imprisonment
What happens next?
Part II. Strategies of sentencing reform
Two categorical alternatives to prisons
Restructuring the governance of imprisonment
Prosecutorial power and adversarial focus
Part II. Afterword. Explaining the limited estimates of decarceration
Part III. Policy problems for a million-cell future
Strategy and tactics for building institutions
The epidemic of penal disabilities.
An American surprise
Crime, law enforcement and sentencing in an era of prison expansion
Why the prison-boom generation?
How American institutions encourage and sustain high rates of imprisonment
What happens next?
Part II. Strategies of sentencing reform
Two categorical alternatives to prisons
Restructuring the governance of imprisonment
Prosecutorial power and adversarial focus
Part II. Afterword. Explaining the limited estimates of decarceration
Part III. Policy problems for a million-cell future
Strategy and tactics for building institutions
The epidemic of penal disabilities.
Summary
"The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. Why did it happen when it happened? What explains the unprecedented magnitude of prison and jail expansion. Why are the current levels of penal confinement so very close to the all-time peak rate reached in 2007? What is the likely course of levels of penal confinement in the next generation of American life? Are there changes in government or policy that can avoid the prospect of mass incarceration as a chronic element of governance in the United States. This study is organized around four major concerns: What happened in the 33 years after 1973? Why did these extraordinary changes happen in that single generation? What is likely to happen to levels of penal confinement in the next three decades? What changes in law or practice might reduce this likely penal future?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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KF9730 .Z555 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780197513170 hardcover
0197513174 hardcover
9780197513200 electronic book
9780197513187 electronic book
9780197513194 electronic publication
0197513174 hardcover
9780197513200 electronic book
9780197513187 electronic book
9780197513194 electronic publication
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