Mass Incarceration Nation

How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How It Can Recover

Jeffrey Bellin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-26754-0 (ISBN)

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A former prosecutor turned law professor explains the rise of mass incarceration and the path to reform. Mass Incarceration Nation offers an in-the-trenches perspective of how thousands of local police, prosecutors, and judges produced the world's highest incarceration rates while solving a shockingly low percentage of crimes.

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.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10	1-009-26754-X / 100926754X
ISBN-13	978-1-009-26754-0 / 9781009267540
Zustand	Neuware