TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellin,Jeffrey
TI  - Mass incarceration nation: how the United States became addicted to prisons and jails and how it can recover 
SN  - 9781009267595 (ebook)
AV  - KF9223 .B45 2023
U1  - 345.7305 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - United States
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Sentences (Criminal procedure)
KW  - Law reform
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Nov 2022); Definition -- The deprivation of incarceration -- Where is mass incarceration? -- Distinguishing the criminal justice and criminal legal systems -- A crime surge --  Repeating patterns : crime, outrage, and harsher laws -- Legislating more punishment and less rehabilitation -- The futility of fighting crime with criminal law -- The role of race -- More police, different arrests -- Prosecutors turning arrests into convictions -- Judges turning convictions into incarceration -- Judicial interpretation --  Punishing repeat offenses -- The parole and probation to prison pipeline -- Disappearing pardons -- The mindlessness of jail -- What success looks like -- (Mostly) abolish the feds -- Less crime Part 1 : changing the rules -- Less crime Part 2 : decreased offending -- Reducing admissions and shortening stays -- Conclusion
N2  - The United States imprisons a higher proportion of its population than any other nation. Mass Incarceration Nation offers a novel, in-the-trenches perspective to explain the factors - historical, political, and institutional - that led to the current system of mass imprisonment. The book examines the causes and impacts of mass incarceration on both the political and criminal justice systems. With accessible language and straightforward statistical analysis, former prosecutor turned law professor Jeffrey Bellin provides a formula for reform to return to the low incarceration rates that characterized the United States prior to the 1970s
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009267595
ER  -