The future of imprisonment / edited by Michael Tonry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tonry, Michael H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--United States.

Prisons.

United States.

Imprisonment--United States.

Imprisonment.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse--a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should be sent there in the first place? What should happen to them while they are inside? When, how, and under what conditions should they be released? The Future of Imprisonment unites some of the leading prisons and penal policy scholars of our time to address these fundamental questions.

Contents:

1. Has the prison a future? / Michael Tonry

2. Crime, law, and the community: dynamics of incarceration in New York City / Jeffrey Fagan

3. Restoring rationality in punishment policy / Alfred Blumstein

4. Limiting retributivism / Richard S. Frase

5. Sentencing reform "reform" through sentencing information systems / Marc L. Miller

6. Democracy and the limits of punishment: a preface to prisoners' rights / Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins

7. Prison reform amid the ruins of prisoners' rights / James B. Jacobs

8. Questioning the conventional wisdom of parole release authority / Kevin R. Reitz

9. The future of violence risk management / John Monahan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0195161637

OCLC:

54767091