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Locked In - The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform (Hardcover)
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Locked In - The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment,
revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best
path to reform In the 1970s, the United States had an incarceration
rate comparable to those of other liberal democracies-and that rate
had held steady for over 100 years. Yet today, though the US is
home to only about 5 percent of the world's population, we hold
nearly one quarter of its prisoners. Mass incarceration is now
widely considered one of the biggest social and political crises of
our age. How did we get to this point? Locked In is a revelatory
investigation into the root causes of mass incarceration by one of
the most exciting scholars in the country. Having spent fifteen
years studying the data on imprisonment, John Pfaff takes apart the
reigning consensus created by Michelle Alexander and other
reformers, revealing that the most widely accepted explanations-the
failed War on Drugs, draconian sentencing laws, an increasing
reliance on private prisons-tell us much less than we think. Pfaff
urges us to look at other factors instead, 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. He describes a fractured
criminal justice system, in which counties don't pay for the people
they send to state prisons, and in which white suburbs set law and
order agendas for more-heavily minority cities. And he shows that
if we hope to significantly reduce prison populations, we have no
choice but to think differently about how to deal with people
convicted of violent crimes-and why some people are violent in the
first place. An authoritative, clear-eyed account of a national
catastrophe, Locked In transforms our understanding of what ails
the American system of punishment and ultimately forces us to
reconsider how we can build a more equitable and humane society.
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