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Downsizing prisons : how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration / Michael Jacobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobson, Michael, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Probation--United States.
- Probation.
- Parole--United States.
- Parole.
- Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Criminals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York and London : New York University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this spectacular rise of the general prison population. After overseeing the largest city jail system in the country, Michael Jacobson knows first-hand the inner workings of the corrections system. In Downsizing Prisons , he convincingly argues that mass incarceration will not, as many have claimed, reduce cri
- Contents:
- Introduction : bloated prisons
- Mass incarceration
- Unintended consequences
- A new reality for prison systems
- Why prison growth does not reduce crime
- Why parole and probation policies need to change
- Success stories
- Downsizing prisons.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814743249
- 0814743242
- 9780814743805
- 0814743803
- 9781429414241
- 1429414243
- OCLC:
- 779828132
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