ISBN:
9780465096916
,
0465096913
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 311 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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25 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Costello, Bob [Rezension von: Pfaff, John F., Locked in] 2021
DDC:
365/.973
Keywords:
Imprisonment
;
Criminal justice, Administration of
;
Corrections
;
Imprisonment United States
;
Criminal justice, Administration of United States
;
Corrections United States
;
Corrections
;
Criminal justice, Administration of
;
Imprisonment
;
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology United States
;
USA
;
Festnahme
;
Strafrecht
;
Freiheitsberaubung
;
USA
;
Kriminalpolitik
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Freiheitsstrafe
;
Strafrecht
;
Reform
Abstract:
"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"--Amazon.com
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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