Do prisons make us safer?: the benefits and costs of the prison boom
Introduction / Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll -- Why are so many Americans in prison / Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll -- The origins of mass incarceration in New York State : the Rockefeller drug laws and the local war on drugs / David F. Weiman and Christopher Weiss -- The impact of prison o...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Russell Sage Foundation
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 3641 |
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| Summary: | Introduction / Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll -- Why are so many Americans in prison / Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll -- The origins of mass incarceration in New York State : the Rockefeller drug laws and the local war on drugs / David F. Weiman and Christopher Weiss -- The impact of prison on crime / Shawn D. Bushway and Raymond Paternoster -- The people prisons make : the effects of incarceration on criminal psychology / Amy E. Lerman -- Ever-increasing levels of parental incarceration and the consequences for children / Rucker C. Johnson -- Footing the bill : causes and budgetary consequences of state spending on corrections / John W. Ellwood and Joshua Guetzkow -- Collateral costs : the effects of incarceration on employment and earnings of young workers / Harry J. Holzer -- Assessing the relative benefits of incarceration : the overall change over the previous decades and the benefits on the margin / John J. Donohue III |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | X, 354 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780871548603 |