Jeffrey Bellin

Mass Incarceration Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

"A former prosecutor turned law professor explains the rise of Mass Incarceration and the path to reform. The book offers an in-the-trenches perspective that solves the riddle of how thousands of local police, prosecutors, and judges, acting independently, produced the world's highest incarceration rates, while solving a shockingly low percentage of even serious crimes"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781009267540
• ISBN-10: 100926754X
• Artikelnr.: 64266181

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Bellin is the Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor at William and Mary Law School. Prior to becoming a law professor, Bellin served as a prosecutor in Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. What is Mass Incarceration?: 1. Definition
2. The deprivation of incarceration
3. Where is mass incarceration?
4. Distinguishing the criminal justice and criminal legal systems
Part II. The Building Blocks of Mass Incarceration: 5. A crime surge
6. Repeating patterns: crime, outrage, and harsher laws
7. Legislating more punishment and less rehabilitation
8. The futility of fighting crime with criminal law
9. The role of race
Part III. The Mechanics of Mass Incarceration: 10. More police, different arrests
11. Prosecutors turning arrests into convictions
12. Judges turning convictions into incarceration
13. Judicial interpretation
14. Punishing repeat offenses
15. The parole and probation to prison pipeline
16. Disappearing pardons
17. The mindlessness of jail
Part IV. The Road to Recovery: 18. What success looks like
19. (Mostly) abolish the feds
20. Less crime part 1: changing the rules
21. Less crime part 2: decreased offending
22. Reducing admissions and shortening stays
Conclusion
Index.