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The Scale of Imprisonment (Paperback, New edition)
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The Scale of Imprisonment (Paperback, New edition)
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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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