Unraveling mass incarceration: criminology's role in the policy process

In this address I argue that large reductions in unproductive and unjust uses of imprisonment requires curtailment of the over use of life imprisonment. I go on to discuss how criminologists should engage the policy process to achieve material reductions in prison populations by the accumulation of...

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Main Author: Nagin, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 401-405
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Keywords:
Life sentences
Mass Incarceration
policy process
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Summary:In this address I argue that large reductions in unproductive and unjust uses of imprisonment requires curtailment of the over use of life imprisonment. I go on to discuss how criminologists should engage the policy process to achieve material reductions in prison populations by the accumulation of many incremental reductions in the overuse of incarceration.
ISSN:1745-9125
DOI:10.1111/1745-9125.12302