Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era : How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass Incarceration Happened Anyway /

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The dramatic increase in U.S. prison populations since the 1970s is often blamed on the mandatory sentencing required by ""three strikes"" laws and other punitive crime bills. Michael O'Hear shows that the blame is actually not so easily assigned. His meticulous analysis of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Hear, Michael, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Imprisonment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Sentences (Procedure penale) > Aspect politique > Wisconsin.
Emprisonnement > Aspect politique > Wisconsin.
Sentences (Procedure penale) > Wisconsin > Histoire.
Emprisonnement > Wisconsin > Histoire.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Political aspects > Wisconsin.
Imprisonment > Political aspects > Wisconsin.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) > Wisconsin > History.
Imprisonment > Wisconsin > History.
Wisconsin.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage, meeting the players
  • The seventies synthesis
  • The equivocal assaul on discretion, 1980-1995
  • The quest for improved community corrections, 1980-1997
  • The demise of parole, 1994-2002
  • Managerialism's modest comeback, the early 2000s
  • Wisconsin's war on drugs
  • Lessons.

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