Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover Bellin Jeffrey
Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover Bellin Jeffrey The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any…
Specifikacia Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover Bellin Jeffrey
Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover Bellin Jeffrey
The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the political and criminal justice systems. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and institutional - that led to the current system of mass imprisonment.
With accessible language and straightforward statistical analysis, former prosecutor turned law professor Jeffery Bellin provides a formula for reform to return to the low incarceration rates that characterized the United States prior to the