Do Prisons Make Us Safer? : The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom /

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"Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to Include a number of underexplored dimensions, such as the fiscal impact on states, effects on children, and employment prospects fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stoll, Michael A., Raphael, Steven, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Corrections > United States.
Prison administration > United States.
Prisons > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why are so many Americans in prison? / Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll
  • The origins of mass incarceration in New York State : the Rockefeller drug laws and the local war on drugs / David F. Weiman and Christopher Weiss
  • The impact of prison on crime / Shawn D. Bushway and Raymond Paternoster
  • The people prisons make : the effects of incarceration on criminal psychology / Amy E. Lerman
  • Ever-increasing levels of parental incarceration and the consequences for children / Rucker C. Johnson
  • Footing the bill : causes and budgetary consequences of state spending on corrections / John W. Ellwood and Joshua Guetzkow
  • Collateral costs : effects of incarceration on employment and earnings among young workers / Harry J. Holzer
  • Assessing the relative benefits of incarceration : overall changes and the benefits on the margin / John J. Donohue III.

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