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Locked in : the true causes of mass incarceration and how to achieve real reform
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, Pfaf...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Locked in : the true causes of mass incarceration and how to achieve real reform / John F. Pfaff |
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New York :
Basic Books
, copyright 2017 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VIII-311 p.) |
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| Résumé : | 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 |
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| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. p. 239-295. Index |
| ISBN : | 978-0-465-09691-6 |