Downsizing Prisons : How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration /

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Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobson, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]
Temas:
Alternatives to imprisonment > United States.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Parole > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Probation > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Bloated Prisons
  • 1 Mass Incarceration
  • 2 Unintended Consequences
  • 3 A New Reality for Prison Systems
  • 4 Why Prison Growth Does Not Substantially Reduce Crime
  • 5 Why Parole and Probation Policies Need to Change
  • 6 Success Stories and Works in Progress
  • 7 Downsizing Prisons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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