Downsizing Prisons : : How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration /

Downsizing Prisons : : How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration / / Michael Jacobson.

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Over two million people are incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, eight times as many since 1975. Mandatory minimum sentencing, parole agencies intent on sending people back to prison, three-strike laws, for-profit prisons, and other changes in the legal system have contributed to this specta...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Jacobson, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Bloated Prisons
  • 1 Mass Incarceration
  • 2 Unintended Consequences
  • 3 A New Reality for Prison Systems
  • 4 Why Prison Growth Does Not Substantially Reduce Crime
  • 5 Why Parole and Probation Policies Need to Change
  • 6 Success Stories and Works in Progress
  • 7 Downsizing Prisons
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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