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Prisons and Crime in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Prisons and Crime in Latin America (Hardcover)
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This groundbreaking work examines Latin America's prison crisis and
the failure of mass incarceration policies. As crime rates rose
over the past few decades, policy makers adopted incarceration as
the primary response to public outcry. Yet, as the number of
inmates increased, crime rates only continued to grow. Presenting
new cross-national data based on extensive surveys of inmates
throughout the region, this book explains the transformation of
prisons from instruments of incapacitation, deterrence, and
rehabilitation to drivers of violence and criminality. Bergman and
Fondevila highlight the impacts of internal drug markets and the
dramatic increase in the number of imprisoned women. Furthermore,
they show how prisons are not isolated from society - they are
sites of active criminal networks, with many inmates maintaining
fluid criminal connections with the outside world. Rather than
reducing crime, prisons have become an integral part of the crime
problem in Latin America.
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