RT Book T1 Do prisons make us safer?: the benefits and costs of the prison boom A2 Raphael, Steven 1968- LA English PP New York PB Russell Sage Foundation YR 2009 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1618077678 AB 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 NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN HV9469 SN 9780871548603 K1 Prisons : United States K1 Prison administration : United States K1 Corrections : United States K1 USA : Freiheitsstrafe : Rechtspolitik K1 USA : Freiheitsstrafe : Soziale Kosten