RT Book
T1 Locked in: the true causes of mass incarceration - and how to achieve real reform
A1 Pfaff, John F.
LA English
PP New York
PB Basic Books
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/872082636
AB "Pfaff argues that existing accounts of the causes of mass incarceration are fundamentally misguided. The most widely accepted explanations--the failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing reliance on private prisons--actually tell us much less than we like to think. Instead, Pfaff urges us to look at other factors, including a major shift in prosecutor behavior that occurred in the mid-1990s, when prosecutors began bringing felony charges against arrestees about twice as often as they had before"--Amazon.com
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9471
SN 9780465096916
SN 0465096913
K1 Imprisonment : United States
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : United States
K1 Corrections : United States
K1 Corrections
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of
K1 Imprisonment
K1 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy
K1 Social Science / Criminology : United States
K1 USA : Festnahme : Strafrecht : Freiheitsberaubung
K1 USA : Kriminalpolitik : Sozialpolitik : Freiheitsstrafe : Strafrecht : Reform