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The Future of Imprisonment (Paperback)
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The Future of Imprisonment (Paperback)
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The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five
since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened,
compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten
worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago
as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal
punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be
made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should be
sent there in the first place? What should happen to them while
they are inside? When, how, and under what conditions should they
be released?
The Future of Imprisonment unites some of the leading prisons and
penal policy scholars of our time to address these fundamental
questions. Inspired by the work of Norval Morris, the contributors
look back to the past twenty-five years of penal policy in an
effort to look forward to the prison's twenty-first century future.
Their essays examine the effects of current high levels of
imprisonment on urban neighborhoods and the people who live in
them. They reveal how current policies came to be as they are and
explain the theories of punishment that guide imprisonment
decisions. Finally, the contributors argue for the strategic
importance of controls on punishment including imprisonment as a
limit on government power; chart the rise and fall of efforts to
improve conditions inside; analyze the theory and practice of
prison release; and evaluate the tricky science of predicting and
preventing recidivism.
A definitive guide to imprisonment policies for the future, this
volume convincingly demonstrates how we can prevent crime more
effectively at lower economic and human cost.
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