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The Scale of Imprisonment: Studies in Crime and Justice

Autor Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon J. Hawkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 1993
Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowding of American prisons. By critiquing the existing scholarship on prison scale from sociology and history to correctional forecasting and economics, they both reveal that explicit policy changes have had little influence on the increases in imprisonment in recent years and analyze whether it is possible to place limits effectively on prison population.

"The Scale of Imprisonment has an exceptionally well designed literature review of interest to public policy, criminal justice, and public law scholars. Its careful review, analysis, and critique of research is stimulating and inventive."—American Political Science Review

"The authors fram our thoughts about the soaring use of imprisonment and stimulate our thinking about the best way we as criminologists can conduct rational analysis and provide meaningful advice."—Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Journal of Quantitative Criminology

"Zimring and Hawkins bring a long tradition of excellent criminological scholarship to the seemingly intractable problems of prisons, prison overcrowding, and the need for alternative forms of punishment."—J. C. Watkins, Jr., Choice

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226983547
ISBN-10: 0226983544
Pagini: 258
Ilustrații: 21 tables, 14 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Studies in Crime and Justice


Notă biografică

Franklin E. Zimring is professor of law and director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, where Gordon Hawkins is a senior fellow. Their many books include Capital Punishment and the American Agenda.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Issue of Scale
1. Imprisonment as a Social Process: Rusche, Kirchheimer, and Blumstein
2. Imprisonment as Historical Process: Rothman, Foucault, and Ignatieff
3. Imprisonment as a Natural Outcome: The Art or Craft of Correctional Forecasting
4. Imprisonment as a Policy Tool: Prescriptive Approaches
Part Two: The American Experience
5. Five Theories in Search of the Facts
6. Fifty-One Different Countries: State and Regional Experience
7. Policy or Process?
8. Decarceration Policies and Their Impact
9. Toward a Political Economy of Imprisonment
References
Index