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The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform (Hardcover)
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The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform (Hardcover)
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Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the
United States remains at an unprecedented high level. This book
provides the first comprehensive survey of these reforms and
explains why they have proven to be ineffective. After many decades
of stability, the imprisonment rate in the United States quintupled
between 1973 and 2003. Since then, nearly all states have adopted
multiple reforms intended to reduce imprisonment, but the U.S.
imprisonment rate has only decreased by a paltry two percent. Why
are American sentencing reforms since 2000 been largely
ineffective? Are tough mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent
drug offenders the primary reason our prisons are always full? This
book offers a fascinating assessment of the wave of sentencing
reforms adopted by dozens of states as well as changes at the
federal level since 2000, identifying common themes among seemingly
disparate changes in sentencing policy and highlighting recent
reform efforts that have been more successful and may point the way
forward for the nation as a whole. In The Failed Promise of
Sentencing Reform, author Michael O'Hear exposes the myths that
American prison sentencing reforms enacted in the 21st century have
failed to have the expected effect because U.S. prisons are filled
to capacity with nonviolent drug offenders as a result of the "war
on drugs," and because of new laws that took away the discretion of
judges and corrections officials. O'Hear then makes a convincing
case for the real reason sentencing reforms have come up short:
because they exclude violent and sexual offenders, and because they
rely on the discretion of officials who still have every incentive
to be highly risk-averse. He also highlights how overlooking the
well-being of offenders and their families in our consideration of
sentencing reform has undermined efforts to effect real change.
Clearly identifies the real reasons that the wave of post-2000
sentencing reform has had minimal impact on reducing national
imprisonment rates Explains why reforms must target the excessive
sentences imposed on violent and sexual offenders, even though the
members of these offender groups are considered "justifiably
punished" by long prison terms in the public eye Enables readers to
understand why increased consideration for the well-being of
offenders and their families is likely a prerequisite to the
acceptance of more fundamental changes to the U.S. sentencing
system
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