Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
National Assessment Of The Byrne Formula Grant Program: A Policy Maker's Overview, Report 4, December 1996
Author: Year in Review
Author: National Institute of Justice (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
NCJRS Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
National Assessment Of The Byrne Formula Grant Program: The Anti-Drug Abuse Act Of 1988- A Comparative Analysis Of Legislation, Report 2, December 1996
Author: National Assessment of the Byrne Formula Grant Program
Author: Terence DunworthPublisher:
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Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
National Assessment of the Byrne Formula Grant Program
Author: National Assessment Of The Byrne Formula Grant Program: Where The Money Went - An Analysis Of State Subgrant Funding Decisions Under The Byrne Formula Grant Program, Report 1, December 1996
Author: National Assessment Of The Byrne Formula Grant Program: A Seven State Study - An Analysis Of State And Local Responses To The Bryne Formula Grant Program, Report 3, December 1996
Author: Research in Brief
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ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Building the Prison State
Author: Heather SchoenfeldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652101X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world—about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people—while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disparities in incarceration, the prison system also reinforces race and class divisions. How and why did we become the world’s leading jailer? And what can we, as a society, do about it? Reframing the story of mass incarceration, Heather Schoenfeld illustrates how the unfinished task of full equality for African Americans led to a series of policy choices that expanded the government’s power to punish, even as they were designed to protect individuals from arbitrary state violence. Examining civil rights protests, prison condition lawsuits, sentencing reforms, the War on Drugs, and the rise of conservative Tea Party politics, Schoenfeld explains why politicians veered from skepticism of prisons to an embrace of incarceration as the appropriate response to crime. To reduce the number of people behind bars, Schoenfeld argues that we must transform the political incentives for imprisonment and develop a new ideological basis for punishment.