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Incapacitation [electronic resource] : penal confinement and the restraint of crime / Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimring, Franklin E.
- Series:
- Studies in crime and public policy
- An Earl Warren Legal Institute study
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imprisonment--Philosophy.
- Imprisonment.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment--Evaluation.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 188 p. ) ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An assessment of incapacitation in which the authors expose the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature and empirical research on incapacitation's effects, and explore the links between incapacitation and criminal justice policy. In the STUDIES IN CRIME AND PUBLIC POLICY series.
- In this, the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation, Professors Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance of restraint to justify imprisonment, analyse the existing theoretical literature on incapacitation effects, review the existing empirical research on the topic, report a new study, and explore in detail the links between what is known about incapacitation and the proper construction of criminal justice policy.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-534433-2
- 1-60256-650-X
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