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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1. VerfasserIn: Nagin, Daniel (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2022
In: Criminology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 60, Heft: 3, Seiten: 401-405
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Zusammenfassung: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