Katherine Beckett

Ending Mass Incarceration

Why It Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

Ending Mass Incarceration explores why mass incarceration is a failed public safety strategy and what should be done to bring about truly transformative change. Although policymakers on both the left and right now recognize mass incarceration as a problem rather than a solution, and many states have taken steps to reduce prison populations, the criminal legal response to crime is harsher than ever. This book identifies three key dynamics that are bolstering mass incarceration. It also identifies three broad changes that would limit the power and reach of the criminal legal system while also addressing the social problems to which it is a misguided response.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780197536575
• ISBN-10: 0197536573
• Artikelnr.: 63199945

Autorenporträt

Katherine Beckett is Chair and Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice and S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She is also a faculty associate and steering committee member of the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights. Her research analyzes the causes and consequences of changes in criminal law and punishment in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of race. She is the author of Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics and co-author of Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America and The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America. In 2019 she received the Dorsen Presidential Prize for lifetime contributions to research on civil liberties and civil rights from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politics of Violence and the Myth of Monstrosity
Chapter 2: The Place of Punishment
Chapter 3: The Limits of Drug Policy Reform
Chapter 4: End Excessive Sentencing
Chapter 5: Violence and Victims
Chapter 6: Toward Transformative Drug Policy Reform
Chapter 7: Reimagining Public Safety
Bibliography
Index