Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. The Emergence of Mass Incarceration
  • Chapter 2. Understanding and Documenting the Determinants of Incarceration Growth
  • Chapter 3. What Would Current Incarceration Rates Be Under Previous Sentencing Practices?
  • Chapter 4. The Policy Changes Driving Incarceration Growth
  • Chapter 5. Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill and Growth in the U.S. Prison Population
  • Chapter 6. Demographic Change, the Economy, and the Crack Epidemic
  • Chapter 7. Incarceration and Crime
  • Chapter 8. What Now?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.