Mass incarceration nation : how the United States became addicted to prisons and jails and how it can recover / Jeffrey Bellin, William & Mary Law School.
"A former prosecutor turned law professor explains the rise of Mass Incarceration and the path to reform. The book offers an in-the-trenches perspective that solves the riddle of how thousands of local police, prosecutors, and judges, acting independently, produced the world's highest inca...
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| Other title: | How the United States became addicted to prisons and jails and how it can recover |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Definition
- The deprivation of incarceration
- Where is mass incarceration?
- Distinguishing the criminal justice and criminal legal systems
- A crime surge
- Repeating patterns : crime, outrage, and harsher laws
- Legislating more punishment and less rehabilitation
- The futility of fighting crime with criminal law
- The role of race
- More police, different arrests
- Prosecutors turning arrests into convictions
- Judges turning convictions into incarceration
- Judicial interpretation
- Punishing repeat offenses
- The parole and probation to prison pipeline
- Disappearing pardons
- The mindlessness of jail
- What success looks like
- (Mostly) abolish the feds
- Less crime Part 1 : changing the rules
- Less crime Part 2 : decreased offending
- Reducing admissions and shortening stays
- Conclusion.