Ending mass incarceration : why it persists and how to achieve meaningful reform /
Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Studies in crime and public policy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have taken steps to reduce prison populations, the criminal legal response to crime is harsher than ever. This book identifies three key dynamics that are bolstering mass incarceration. It also identifies three broad changes that would limit the power and reach of the criminal legal system while also ad. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197536599 019753659X 9780197536582 0197536581 9780197536605 0197536603 |