Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America - Couverture rigide

Simon, Jonathan

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ISBN 10 : 1595587691 ISBN 13 : 9781595587695

Editeur : The New Press, 2014

Synopsis

For nearly 40 years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading. Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a series of landmark decisions about prison conditions that has opened an unexpected escape route from this trap of tough on crime' politics. This set of rulings points toward values that could restore legitimate order to American prisons and lead to the end of mass incarceration.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Simon is the Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, Governing through Crime, won the American Sociology Association’s 2008 Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award and the 2010 Hindelang Prize of the American Society of Criminology. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595587691
• ISBN 13: 9781595587695
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 214
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