Ending Mass Incarceration: Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform

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Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have...

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Main Author: Beckett, Katherine 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press USA - OSO 2022
In:Year: 2022
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Summary:Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have taken steps to reduce prison populations, the criminal legal response to crime is harsher than ever. This book identifies three key dynamics that are bolstering mass incarceration. It also identifies three broad changes that would limit the power and reach of the criminal legal system while also addressing the social problems to which it is a misguided response.
Cover -- Series -- Ending Mass Incarceration Why it Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Politics of Violence -- 3. The Place of Punishment -- 4. The Limits of Recent Drug Policy Reforms -- 5. End Excessive Sentencing -- 6. Violence and Restorative Justice -- 7. Rethinking Drug Policy -- 8. Reimagining Public Safety -- Appendix A. Legislative Reforms: Data and Methods -- Appendix B. Criminal Case Processing: Data and Methods -- Appendix C. County-​Level Determinants of Prison Admissions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (273 pages)
ISBN:9780197536599