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The insidious momentum of American mass incarceration /
"The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. Why did it happen when it happened? What explains the unprecedented magnitude of prison and jail expansion. Why are the current levels of penal confine...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The road to 2020
- An American surprise
- Crime, law enforcement and sentencing in an era of prison expansion
- Why the prison-boom generation?
- How American institutions encourage and sustain high rates of imprisonment
- What happens next?
- Part II. Strategies of sentencing reform
- Two categorical alternatives to prisons
- Restructuring the governance of imprisonment
- Prosecutorial power and adversarial focus
- Part II. Afterword. Explaining the limited estimates of decarceration
- Part III. Policy problems for a million-cell future
- Strategy and tactics for building institutions
- The epidemic of penal disabilities.